Single-player games like City of Chains
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to City of Chains, 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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Pegasus: Broken Wings
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
Follow a new set of events involving Pegasus-5 crew with them being stuck in a city under curfew after a terrorist attack and getting entangled in a massive conspiracy. Stick close to your allies, build romantic relations, and make important choices.
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Oracle: Pythia Protocol
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
A dice-driven role-playing game set in a cyberpunk world that survived the war against an artificial intelligence. Forge bonds, upgrade implants, and shape the fate of Arkeo City. Your choices define your story, but the dice have the final word.
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Heroes of Time
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
Join young adventurers from the future on a quest through time, battling ancient evils and futuristic threats to save the world.
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Forgotten Stars
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City of Chains.
Forgotten Stars is a tactical RPG where you recruit your own crew of space pirates. Plunder your opponents, build bonds with your crew, and embark on your journey through the darkest corners of space.
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Dream about yoU
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
A dashing blond partner drops in from the sky, declaring they're taking responsibility for you—but they need a small favor.Find them in your dreams, wake them up, and crack the dream maze. Sci-fi comedy, adventure starts now!
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Rain of Reflections: Set Free
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City of Chains.
Rain of Reflections is an atmospheric, dystopian adventure game with exploration and deep character interactions. Its turn-based strategic confrontations are uniquely centered around a motivation mechanic.
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Choose Wisely
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City of Chains.
This game features no specific hero. You, as the player, can decide who makes it out alive. Your actions determine the outcome of the game. In total there are 9 playable characters and more than 50 different paths.
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Survivor's Notes
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
"Survivor's Notes" is an FMV . Players control two protagonists, using choices and QTEs to unlock different branches and endings. Follow a girl who foresees disaster and acolonel from the future as their stories reveal the outbreak's origins. Trust,rescue, or walk away. Survival is onlyone of them.
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Shadowrun Returns
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City of Chains.
The unique cyberpunk-meets-fantasy world of Shadowrun has gained a huge cult following since its creation nearly 25 years ago. Now, creator Jordan Weisman returns to the world of Shadowrun, modernizing this classic game setting as a single player, turn-based tactical RPG.
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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with City of Chains.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
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Atonement: Scourge of Time
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
The last king was killed over 400 years ago and the global rule of the land ceased to exist. The Vindicator is coming. ~a decadent, dark fantasy world with a new take on the concepts of Angels and Demons!
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Insincere
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with City of Chains.
You are Joseph Walker. After waking up in a strangely deserted science facility with no recollection of how you got there, you hear the voice of an A.I. The A.I. promises to be your guide and to help you out of the facility. However, it is clear right away that it’s not telling you everything.
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Incitement 3
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
An expansive dystopian sci-fi world awaits you! Equipment customization, a varied cast and an epic story in this sci-fi epic from Astronomic Games.
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Outrage
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
Outrage is a short cyberpunk dungeon crawler. You manage a team of vigilantes and must undertake various missions in the city to strengthen your team and your cause in order to bring a powerful enemy to justice.
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Atonement 2: Ruptured by Despair
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with City of Chains.
Three weeks have passed since the events of Atonement: Scourge of Time, but the world is yet in peril. Elleria and her allies find themselves in an alternate timeline where events took a grimmer turn. She will now have to go head to head against her other self in order to stop the impending threat.
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Mercury: Cascade into Madness
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
Mercury is a quirky and violent vigilante. After experiencing a traumatic event in her life, she saw it as her purpose to take to the streets and fight crime, only to become entangled in something huge that could threaten the entire city. Cyberpunk RPG with choice and consequence.
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Renegade Grounds: Episode 1
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
First episode of a thrilling adventure! Two mercenaries, Agela and Ingus, are tasked to infiltrate the criminal underworld to retrieve a device of high value that was stolen from the council. The job gets more complex as more factions join the hunt for the item, but to Agela and Ingus, failure is not an option!
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Snares of Ruin
Single-player alternative to City of Chains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with City of Chains.
You are detective Hank Anderson , and you’ve just been transferred to another city to help solve a series of unusual crimes. Upon arrival, you are greeted with a gory scene and a revelation of several instances of a deadly disease that turns people into savage zombie-like husks.