Single-player games like Shadowgate: MacVenture Series
Below are 18 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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Vlad Voievod Dracula. Episode 1 Manhunt
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
If you enjoyed NES games like Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, Shatterhand, Jorney to Silius you have to try this game! Play as Vlad Tepes Dracula and fight your way to the Wallachian border to take your rightful throne in a new medieval Classicvania game with gorgeous art, and 10 playable characters!
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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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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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Super Grave Snatchers
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Use necromancy to smash villages, scare townsfolk, and generally cause a ruckus.
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Awakened Evil
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Awakened Evil is an action platformer inspired by the classics. Jump and slash your way through intense linear stages that will put your skills to the test. Do you have what it takes to slay all the bosses, and take on evil itself?
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The Castle
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Evil has taken over a small town. But a group of courageous adventurers has decided to organize an expedition to end the feared vampire. Recruit a group of characters to enter the castle and fulfill your mission. But get ready because the castle hides many surprises.
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Beyond the Sky
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Help Selene escape from a mysterious dark forest and defeat her fears in an exciting and powerful point and click adventure that will test your wits with difficult but logical puzzles seamlessly integrated into the story.
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The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
Single-player alternative to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Now includes original classic games The Bard’s Tale 1, 2 & 3!
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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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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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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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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...