Single-player games like Silent Terminal
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Silent Terminal, 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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Khaldun: Text Based Strategy
Single-player alternative to Silent Terminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Silent Terminal.
Khaldun is a medieval-themed ASCII graphics kingdom management game. Take part in realistic war simulations and decide every detail of your kingdom, from its economy to its demographics! Your decisions will shape the life of a nation. Rise or be lost to history...
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Upheaval
Single-player alternative to Silent Terminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Silent Terminal.
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
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Trawel
Single-player alternative to Silent Terminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Silent Terminal.
Trawel is a historically-inaccurate open world text adventure RPG. Created as a re-imagining of old-school calculator and early command line games, it eschews their limitations but attempts to capture their spirit, and bring it in line with modern quality of life standards with a GUI.
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God, Save the Queens!
Single-player alternative to Silent Terminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Silent Terminal.
You are God. The king’s five daughters have been taken. Fight thousands of enemies, unlock powerful skills, and crush the evil wizard Zaharad in this brutal 2.5D roguelike!
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The Carcass
Single-player alternative to Silent Terminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Silent Terminal.
A typing-driven Lovecraftian colony sim. You wake inside the corpse of a dead god, adrift in space. Carve a roguelike colony from procedurally generated anatomy — negotiate with rival alien factions, evolve occult mutations, find your ending. The carcass remembers.
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Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
Single-player alternative to Silent Terminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Silent Terminal.
Warsim is a deep, rich text based kingdom ruling sim unlike anything else, complete with charming ASCII graphics. Navigate the millions of different procedurally generated races, events and areas with a huge emphasis on player choice. Don't let its look fool you, there is depth in every direction.
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Spire, Surge, and Sea
Single-player alternative to Silent Terminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Silent Terminal.
The King lies. Your memories are a weapon. In humanity's last city, floating in a worldwide seascape, will you fight for truth or defend the crown? A 380,000-word text-based interactive post-apocalyptic science fantasy novel.
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Text Dungeon: The Ring of Life
Single-player alternative to Silent Terminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Silent Terminal.
No graphics, No tiles. Just text-RPG adventure! Explore a shifting labyrinth, regain the Ring of Life from the wizard Shingor. Classic roguelike-style messages guide your journey, with narrative scenes evoking the spirit of MUDs and gamebooks. Death is permanent. Every run brings new discoveries.