Single-player games like Mandated Fate
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Mandated Fate, 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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Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.
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Shadow City Mysteries: A Clockwork Noir
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
Shadow City Mysteries is a narrative adventure game in which players take on the role of a detective investigating a Mystery. Or is it a Conspiracy? Or is it a Supernatural Thriller? Experience the story multiple times to discover a story and world bigger than they suspected existed.
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Veils of the Past
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
A psychological mystery where every clue reshapes reality. Unravel the link between a vanished woman and your missing sister, only to discover four entirely different truths, each revealing a new world, a new enemy, and the price of remembering.
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Quit Stalin
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Stalin's on your couch, and one wrong word sends you and your family to the gulag. Get inside his head before he decides you're the problem. Freud, Adler, Jung - pick your psychological method. A dark comedy about therapy, power, and what it costs to tell a tyrant the truth.
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Agarta
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
Agarta has been designed to show you how valuable and important every decision you make in your individual life, every choice you make is. Because every choice you make is also a renunciation and you cannot undo any decision.
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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.
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A Case of Distrust
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
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Mindcop
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming. As the infamous Mindcop, you can dive into the minds of your suspects to uncover their secrets and unravel their lies.