Single-player games like Shadowgate: MacVenture Series
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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The Uninvited: MacVenture Series
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Relive the original MacVenture Series version of The Uninvited! Play through the Mac and Apple IIGS versions and survive the supernatural dangers of the haunted mansion.
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Shadowgate
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Thrust into the role of "The Seed of Prophecy," players travel deep into the living castle, in hopes of defeating the evil that dwells within – the dreaded Warlock Lord.
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Beyond Shadowgate
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
The original design of the never-before seen point and click adventure has been brought to life after 30+ years in the vault - Beyond Shadowgate! This new massive game (created by the designer of the original hit Shadowgate and a leading 8-bit adventure studio) is 5 TIMES BIGGER than NES Shadowgate!
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Stories Untold
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
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Goetia
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Goetia is a point & click adventure where you play the ghost of a young lady. You are Abigail. Abigail Blackwood.
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Gothic II: Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Gothic II: Gold Edition brings together the excitement of Gothic II and the add-on Night of the Raven to your fingertips!
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UFO 50
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
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An English Haunting
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
While looking for the existence of the Great Beyond, Professor Patrick Moore, aided by a fake medium, will build a device to see the other side, embark on a search for a millenary artifact, and investigate the most haunted manor of 1907 England.
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Uninvited Guest
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.
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Unwelcome
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Stay alive in this weird and peculiar horror experience. What begins as a game between friends turns into a race for your life. Take a breath and enter the house.
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Deja Vu
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Get ready for a mindbending cyberpunk experience! Figure out more than a dozen puzzles through your manipulation of time based clones and try to get the best time in each level! Dive into Déjà Vu, inspired by puzzlers like Braid and The Swapper.
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Déjà Vu: MacVenture Series
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Relive the original MacVenture Series version of Déjà Vu! Play through the Mac and Apple IIGS versions and discover a classic detective mystery adventure.
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Déjà Vu II: MacVenture Series
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Relive the original MacVenture Series version of Déjà Vu II! Play through the Mac and Apple IIGS versions as a hard-boiled detective in a city full of crime and mystery.
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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Case of the Mummy's Curse
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
The London Times started it all – calling the murders the work of an ancient Egyptian curse. I accused the tabloid of capitalizing on the superstitions of the populace. Yet, three men were dead, with the wrappings of a 4000-year old mummy binding their fates together.
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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Case of the Tin Soldier
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Inspector Smythe from Scotland Yard has informed Watson and me of the murder of General Armstead, a Tontine ticket holder. Something about this case intrigues me. Perhaps it ís that the General was about to publish a scintillating addendum to his infamous book on treasure.
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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Case of the Mystified Murderess
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
An unassuming woman has been charged with the death of a scoundrel, a fortune-squandering bounder. She was found over the body, pistol in hand but there are other avenues in this case that even the Yard refuses to set foot upon. I have the feeling that there is more to the case than meets the eye.
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Argonus and the Gods of Stone
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
The creators of Shadowgate present Argonus and the Gods of Stone, an epic first-person adventure set in ancient Greece. Stranded on an uncharted isle, you must use your wits to unlock legendary mysteries, barter with gods and overcome an evil that threatens to bring the world to ruin...