Single-player games like Missing Translation
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Missing Translation, 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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McPixel
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
McPixel is a save-the-day guy that you guide through 100 short challenges to prevent stuff from blowing up. You have only 20 seconds to save the day! Think quick!
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Morphopolis
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
Morphopolis is about transformation and discovery. Morphopolis takes you on a puzzle adventure through a fantastical insect world. Starting as an aphid grub, you embark on an epic journey of metamorphosis toward your spawning ground.
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Gorogoa
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.
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Reversion - The Escape (1st Chapter)
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
It’s 2035 in Buenos Aires, or where Buenos Aires used to be. You’ve just woken up in a hospital, and you can’t remember anything. All you know is you have to escape and find out what happened to the city. And how to save it.
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My Brother Rabbit
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
My Brother Rabbit is a beautifully drawn exploration adventure and puzzle game set in a surreal world that mixes reality with a child’s imagination.
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Tengami
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the beautifully crafted paper world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.
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Lume
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
With a set built entirely out of paper and cardboard, and sumptuously filmed, Lume is a game with a style unlike any other.
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Fire: Ungh’s Quest
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
FIRE is an exploration-adventure with intuitive puzzle design. Without losing many words it tells a savagely hilarious story. Journey into the Stone Age and face the most challenging task of this era: The search for fire!
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Please, Don’t Touch Anything
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Missing Translation.
A brain-racking game about bathroom breaks, screwdrivers and nuclear explosions.
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Unium
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Missing Translation.
Draw a line. A single line. How complex can that be?
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FEZ
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Missing Translation.
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.
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A Place for the Unwilling
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.