Single-player games like Kelvin and the Infamous Machine
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine, 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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Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition Double Pack
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are a couple of rip-roaring point-and-click adventure games . With tongue firmly in cheek, sit back, relax, and put your mind to work solving puzzles, and reading some very funny dialogue. It's like a book, only good!
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
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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Deponia Doomsday
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
Can you change Deponia's fate? Do you have what it takes to change Rufus' past, present and future without accidently destroying the whole planet? Fight time itself in this action-packed, platypus-tastic and insanely hilarious story.
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Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
A cozy 2D Point & Click adventure featuring multiple playable characters and plenty of silliness. Oh, and there's time travel and relationship stuff going down too. And robots – lots of robots...
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Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
A comedic point-and-click adventure where a hungover antique dealer must solve his own robbery in Paris, dragging himself and his friends into a wildly idiotic journey!
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3 Minutes to Midnight® - A Comedy Graphic Adventure
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
In a race against time, Betty embarks on a thrilling, comedy-packed adventure to crack a conspiracy that starts with a bang and ends at 3 Minutes to Midnight.
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The Holy Gosh Darn
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
Play as Cassiel, a foul-mouthed angel trapped in a time loop with a mission to save Heaven. Use the magical clock bestowed upon you from Death (yes, that Death, from Manual Samuel, stop asking) to jump between timelines across Heaven, Hell, Earth and Helheim to stop Heaven from going boom. Again.
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Darkestville Castle
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
Darkestville Castle — a darkly comedic point-and-click adventure where you play as a sarcastic demon. Solve clever puzzles, manipulate idiots, and bring chaos back to Darkestville, because being evil is just more fun.
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Simon the Sorcerer Origins
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
Summoned to a strange magical world, Simon must complete an ancient prophecy to return home. Solve crazy puzzles, cast spells, brew odd potions and uncover the origins of a legendary saga!
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Return to Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
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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Slender Threads
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
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Nobodies: Murder Cleaner
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
Nobodies is a puzzle-filled point-and-click adventure in which you must cover up government-sanctioned assassinations. Hide the bodies, destroy the evidence, and leave no trace you were ever there. They do the dirty work. You clean it up.
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Nobodies: After Death
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
Nobodies: After Death is a puzzling point-and-click adventure in cleaning up dirty work. After your agency takes out a target, you make the evidence disappear without a trace. Find a way to get in, get out, and leave no bodies behind.
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Nobodies: Silent Blood
Single-player alternative to Kelvin and the Infamous Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kelvin and the Infamous Machine.
Step back into the shoes of Asset 1080, the intelligence agency's top cleaner. Puzzle your way through 14 unique locations, devising clever ways to hide all evidence of your employer's deadly actions. Get in, get out, and leave no bodies behind.