Single-player games like Buried: An Interactive Story
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Buried: An Interactive Story, 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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BAD END
Single-player alternative to Buried: An Interactive Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buried: An Interactive Story.
It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Buried: An Interactive Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buried: An Interactive Story.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
Single-player alternative to Buried: An Interactive Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buried: An Interactive Story.
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
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The Innsmouth Case
Single-player alternative to Buried: An Interactive Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buried: An Interactive Story.
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.
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Heart of the Forest
Single-player alternative to Buried: An Interactive Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buried: An Interactive Story.
An ill-fated hiking trip spirals into a chilling fight for survival in this interactive psychological horror movie, inspired by centuries-old tales of vengeful spirits from Germany’s Black Forest.
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Homicipher
Single-player alternative to Buried: An Interactive Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buried: An Interactive Story.
Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
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Centum
Single-player alternative to Buried: An Interactive Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Buried: An Interactive Story.
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.
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Roadwarden
Single-player alternative to Buried: An Interactive Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buried: An Interactive Story.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Buried: An Interactive Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Buried: An Interactive Story.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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The Thing from Nowhere
Single-player alternative to Buried: An Interactive Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buried: An Interactive Story.
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".