Single-player games like Blackwood Crossing
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Blackwood Crossing, 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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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Blackwood Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Blackwood Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to Blackwood Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Single-player alternative to Blackwood Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
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The Gardens Between
Single-player alternative to Blackwood Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
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Virginia
Single-player alternative to Blackwood Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.
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Sunset
Single-player alternative to Blackwood Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
It's 1972 and a military coup has rocked Anchuria. You, Angela Burnes, are trapped in the metropolitan capital of San Bavón. Your paradise has turned into a warzone. You take up a job as a housekeeper. Every week, an hour before sunset, you clean the swanky bachelor pad of the wealthy Gabriel Ortega.
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The Park®
Single-player alternative to Blackwood Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Blackwood Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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FAR: Lone Sails
Single-player alternative to Blackwood Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
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Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to Blackwood Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.