Single-player games like Missing Translation
Below are 11 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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The Room
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
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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.
- 3
The Franz Kafka Videogame
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.
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Chants of Sennaar
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.
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There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!
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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to Missing Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Missing Translation.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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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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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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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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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.