Single-player games like Noctropolis
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Noctropolis, 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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Harvester
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
A strange and twisted world...Harvester! The most violent adventure game of all time comes to Steam!
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Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
In this latest chapter from the award-winning studio behind Batman - The Telltale Series, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis.
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Surrealidade - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
Surreal cult adventure in a journey into the world of the unconscious through Surrealist Techniques. Talk to bizarre characters, solve puzzles, and learn a lot about surrealism. Released in 1999, the definitive version offers many extras, including English texts, making-ofs and more.
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Grievance: Eye for an Eye
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
A 2D animated choice-driven interactive superhero drama about the cycle of revenge and everyone affected by it. Watch the story unfold while making choices that lead to different story branches and endings.
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Batman - The Telltale Series
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
Enter the fractured psyche of Bruce Wayne and discover the powerful and far-reaching consequences of your choices as the Dark Knight.
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Kick-Ass 2
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
Dive into an exciting, action-packed adventure and relive the incredible scenes from the Hollywood blockbuster “Kick-Ass 2”. Fight countless hordes of enemies! Put on your mask, hone your weapons, and get ready to kick ass!
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Bad Mojo Redux
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
Enter a world of perilous puzzles and bizarre perspectives--as a cockroach. What you discover may shock you. What you don't may kill you. Either way, you won't come out the same person. You may not even come out a person at all.
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Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
All Curtis wants is to live a normal, happy life, but something seems to have other plans...
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Phantasmagoria
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
Master storyteller Roberta Williams challenges you to experience the ultimate interactive nightmare.
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The Dig®
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
An asteroid the size of a small moon is on a crash course toward Earth. Once the wayward asteroid is nuked into a safe orbit, a trio conducts a routine examination of the rocky surface. What they uncover is anything but routine.
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Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack: Chapter 2 - The Siege of Spinner Cay
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
About Chapter Two Guybrush's adventures continue on the high seas as pox-plagued pirates lay siege to the innocent Mer-People. In between defending the Mer-People and dodging the persistent pirate hunter hot on his trail, Guybrush manages to catch up to his beloved wife and despised arch-nemesis — but their reunion is short-lived.
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Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noctropolis.
After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny of a fascist AI. Alone, save for the circuit board of his best friend, Foster must discover the sinister truth - and why they specifically came for him.
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DIG THE GROUND
Single-player alternative to Noctropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dig the Ground is a unique Match3 puzzler in which you have to match gems of the same color and use all sorts of tools to clear the ground tiles beneath you.