Single-player games like King's Quest
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to King's Quest, 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 Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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The Book of Unwritten Tales
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.
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Back to the Future: The Game
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Featuring a special appearance by Michael J. Fox!
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Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in what has long been considered one of the greatest LucasArts adventure games of all time.
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Maniac Mansion
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Quick, Dr. Fred's Kidnapped Sandy and he's about to start the experiment...
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The Night of the Rabbit
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
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Broken Age
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
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The Longest Journey
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.
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Space Quest™ Collection
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Experience a blast from the past with the complete, completely twisted Space Quest Collection.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Technobabylon
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
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Tales from the Borderlands
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
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Shardlight
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
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Unavowed
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
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The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
Single-player alternative to King's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!