Single-player games like Brightest Star
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Brightest Star, 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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The Invincible
Single-player alternative to Brightest Star — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brightest Star.
Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.
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Event-D
Single-player alternative to Brightest Star — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Brightest Star.
Sci-fi Visual Novel (Linear Story). A group of astronauts, scientists and robots is sent to space on a mission to investigate the disturbing disappearance of the first manned spaceship in its journey to Mars.
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State of Mind
Single-player alternative to Brightest Star — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brightest Star.
State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.
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The Forgotten City
Single-player alternative to Brightest Star — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brightest Star.
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
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Return to Grace
Single-player alternative to Brightest Star — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Brightest Star.
A daring space archaeologist has just unearthed the ancient resting place of a long lost A.I. god known as Grace. Adventure with various fractured A.I. personalities as you uncover the great mystery of why she was shut down all those years ago.
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Detroit: Become Human
Single-player alternative to Brightest Star — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Brightest Star.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to Brightest Star — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brightest Star.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Single-player alternative to Brightest Star — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brightest Star.
Out of cash, out of luck, out on the fringe. Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw takes place in a greasy, blue-collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves.