Single-player games like Long Knives
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Long Knives, 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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ShadowLess Light
Single-player alternative to Long Knives — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A visual novel with RPG elements set in a Cyberpunk dystopia where you play a detective tasked with solving a smorgasbord of cases.
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Beware of the Cartographer!
Single-player alternative to Long Knives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Knives.
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
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Travelling At Night
Single-player alternative to Long Knives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Knives.
CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.
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Sarawak
Single-player alternative to Long Knives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Knives.
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to Long Knives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Long Knives.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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Quarantine Circular
Single-player alternative to Long Knives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Knives.
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Long Knives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Knives.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Uncover the Smoking Gun
Single-player alternative to Long Knives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Knives.
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?