Single-player games like AR-K: The Great Escape
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to AR-K: The Great Escape, 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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AR-K
Single-player alternative to AR-K: The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AR-K: The Great Escape.
Filled with mystery, humor, and suspense, and brought to life in rich 3D-animation, AR-K is a point-and-click story game with a twist
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Grottesco Absurdus
Single-player alternative to AR-K: The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AR-K: The Great Escape.
Grottesco Absurdus is a bright transference crossover, absurd and chaotic. A vibrant mixture of childhood fantasies and fears becomes an unpredictable story. It's a fair deal! Join us!
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Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure
Single-player alternative to AR-K: The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AR-K: The Great Escape.
Bolt Riley is a a classic 2D point and click Jamaican Reggae adventure game where you play as Bolt Riley, a poor boy from Trenchtown, Jamaica, on his pathway to stardom. Bolt is struggling to survive and has to deal with a gang of Rude Boys.
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Bald Ball
Single-player alternative to AR-K: The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AR-K: The Great Escape.
Bald Ball is a difficult physics-based game where you control a man in a hamster ball climbing the world to reach the moon made of cheese. Will you master the power of the hamster ball?
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UpWakeNing
Single-player alternative to AR-K: The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AR-K: The Great Escape.
Are you a true platform player? Take up the challenge to beat this unforgiving game where your goal is to climb up to the top to wake up. A game where for every successful jump, the tension and stake rises with the fear of falling back to start. Can you do it?
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The Franz Kafka Videogame
Single-player alternative to AR-K: The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AR-K: The Great Escape.
An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.
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The Journey Down: Chapter One
Single-player alternative to AR-K: The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AR-K: The Great Escape.
The Journey Down is a point-and-click series with an Afro-Caribbean twist. Get ready to embark on a journey of exploration, mystery and grave danger - but also a journey of warmth, friendship and love.
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The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
Single-player alternative to AR-K: The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with AR-K: The Great Escape.
Every world needs its heroes. However unlikely they may seem. Join Wilbur, Ivo, Nate and Critter in another classic point-and-click adventure in the wicked world of Aventásia. Help them fulfill their destiny. A destiny as yet unwritten.
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Return to Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to AR-K: The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with AR-K: The Great Escape.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
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King's Quest
Single-player alternative to AR-K: The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with AR-K: The Great Escape.
King’s Quest is a collection of five different chapter releases, each focusing on an untold tale in Graham’s past. Discover a wondrous world full of whimsical characters, charming puzzles and perilous dangers in this fun and enchanting coming of age story.
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The Waylanders
Single-player alternative to AR-K: The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AR-K: The Great Escape.
Slip the bonds of fate in this party-based RPG filled with Celtic myth and historical legend. Discover thrilling adventure alongside mortal companions and immortal allies as you explore the world of The Waylanders.
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Bullshot
Single-player alternative to AR-K: The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with AR-K: The Great Escape.
Help Frank F. Franky fight the evil cardesians, zombies & robots while setting your arrested friends free. Bullshot is a run 'n gun game that tries to recover the essence of the 90s classics, such as Abuse, Contra or the Metal Slug sagas.