Single-player games like Sketch Tales
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Sketch Tales, 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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Wytchsun: Elleros Origins
Single-player alternative to Sketch Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sketch Tales.
Experience the land of Elleros, a complete open world for you to explore in any way you choose. From exploring ancient caves to battling corrupted necromancers, Elleros enables you to play the way you choose. Every 400 years a cataclysm wipes out nearly all life. The last cataclysm was 399 years ago.
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Lilium
Single-player alternative to Sketch Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sketch Tales.
Lilium is an action role-playing game taking place in a very small, but dense open world. It has a short, interesting main story, several side quests, dungeons and exciting secrets waiting to be discovered. Find your fun by interacting with your surroundings, develop your character, loot everything.
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GRAV
Single-player alternative to Sketch Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sketch Tales.
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
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Humanity Lost
Single-player alternative to Sketch Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sketch Tales.
Will you save humanity? You are on a mission to find a new planet for humans to inhabit. In this story driven FPS space opera you will explore open world planets, find weapons, upgrade your character, and befriend alien species.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Single-player alternative to Sketch Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sketch Tales.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
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Savage Lands
Single-player alternative to Sketch Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sketch Tales.
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Sketch Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sketch Tales.
Embark on a journey to a realm overrun by demons in a new epic RPG from the creators of the critically acclaimed Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Explore the nature of good and evil, learn the true cost of power, and rise as a Mythic Hero capable of deeds beyond mortal expectations.
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Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom
Single-player alternative to Sketch Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sketch Tales.
Shiness is an Action-RPG developed by indie development studio Enigami, which will let you travel in a captivating universe doomed to destruction ever since the fragmentation of the planet Mahera...