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Single-player games like The Mystery of a Lost Planet

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Mystery of a Lost Planet, 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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    Time Trap - Hidden Objects Puzzle Game — Steam game cover

    Time Trap - Hidden Objects Puzzle Game

    Single-player alternative to The Mystery of a Lost Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Mystery of a Lost Planet.

    A hidden object mystery set in a haunting post-apocalyptic town. Search detailed scenes, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth behind a journalist’s disappearance. Every shadow hides a clue.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Inbetween Land — Steam game cover

    Inbetween Land

    Single-player alternative to The Mystery of a Lost Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Mystery of a Lost Planet.

    Open the portal to a strange world and save your friend with Inbetween Land, a stunning sci-fi adventure. There's a sense that something just isn't right when a childhood friend calls for you.

    2015IndieAdventureCasual6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Questerium: Sinister Trinity HD Collector's Edition — Steam game cover

    Questerium: Sinister Trinity HD Collector's Edition

    Single-player alternative to The Mystery of a Lost Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Mystery of a Lost Planet.

    Financed by the banker, the professor builds an evil machine that causes the meteor’s energy to spin out of control, destroying the city and mutating its plants and animals. Citizens are evacuated, but rescuers fail to find and evacuate two children.

    2015AdventureCasual6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lost Lands: The Golden Curse Collector's Edition — Steam game cover

    Lost Lands: The Golden Curse Collector's Edition

    Single-player alternative to The Mystery of a Lost Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Mystery of a Lost Planet.

    Lost Lands: the Golden Curse is an adventurous hidden object game-quest with puzzles and mini-games scattered through the boundless spaces of the fantasy world – from the volcano valleys to the Druid forest, from the deep caves to the floating islands.

    2016AdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hope Lake — Steam game cover

    Hope Lake

    Single-player alternative to The Mystery of a Lost Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Mystery of a Lost Planet.

    The Hope Lake Boarding School was abandoned long ago, when one of its teachers drowned by accident. Many years later, all of the female students began to disappear, one by one. Visit the place where it all began. Try to pick up the maniac's trail and put a stop to his crime spree.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crossroad Mysteries: The Broken Deal — Steam game cover

    Crossroad Mysteries: The Broken Deal

    Single-player alternative to The Mystery of a Lost Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Mystery of a Lost Planet.

    Anna goes to the places of her childhood. She hopes to get cured from strange disease. This is the last chance to find out the cause of her misery. Whether she ever recover and at what price?

    2017IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Tiny Bang Story — Steam game cover

    The Tiny Bang Story

    Single-player alternative to The Mystery of a Lost Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Mystery of a Lost Planet.

    Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...

    2011IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of The Baskervilles — Steam game cover

    Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of The Baskervilles

    Single-player alternative to The Mystery of a Lost Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Mystery of a Lost Planet.

    Help Sherlock Holmes, the famed detective, investigate the legend of a supernatural hound on the fog-shrouded moorland in England of the 19th century. Immerse yourself into the dangerous world of diabolical curse and discover the truth of the monstrous creature.

    2012AdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Dig® — Steam game cover

    The Dig®

    Single-player alternative to The Mystery of a Lost Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mystery of a Lost Planet.

    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.

    2009Adventure5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars — Steam game cover

    J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars

    Single-player alternative to The Mystery of a Lost Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mystery of a Lost Planet.

    J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is an innovative narrative driven adventure game. The story centers on Rachel Manners, a 35 year old astrobiologist. She is a member of an elite group of scientists, chosen to embark on one of the most critical missions ever conceived on Earth. Now Rachel is alone, orbiting an unknown planet.

    2014IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DIG THE GROUND — Steam game cover

    DIG THE GROUND

    Single-player alternative to The Mystery of a Lost Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Mystery of a Lost Planet.

    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.

    2020Casual5.59 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →