Single-player games like CITADEL
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to CITADEL, 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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A Summer with the Shiba Inu
Single-player alternative to CITADEL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
Syd the Shiba Inu quits her job in Canine-da, and goes to fight other dogs on an Island. What could go wrong? Your choices matter - there are multiple drastic ways to change the fate of Shiba Island, with 10+ variants depending on how you treat the dogs you meet along the way.
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Roadwarden
Single-player alternative to CITADEL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
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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Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
Single-player alternative to CITADEL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CITADEL.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
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This Is Not Your House
Single-player alternative to CITADEL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
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Decade
Single-player alternative to CITADEL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
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Vessels
Single-player alternative to CITADEL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.
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Stiff Neck
Single-player alternative to CITADEL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
A story about the self—and about others. A toy factory, several cursed dolls, and a horror novel… This quiet seaside town throws Noele's love life into chaos and dredges up the old wounds she has tried for years to forget.
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KARMA: The Dark World
Single-player alternative to CITADEL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.