Single-player games like The NADI Project
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The NADI Project, 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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PROTOThYPE _ a love story
Single-player alternative to The NADI Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The NADI Project.
PROTOThYPE it's a short game experience that will allow you to discover the tormented love story of a young developer for a classmate.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to The NADI Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The NADI Project.
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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Draugen
Single-player alternative to The NADI Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The NADI Project.
Draugen is a single-player, first-person Fjord Noir mystery set in 1920s Norway. Explore a forgotten coastal village in your search for your missing sister, accompanied by your independent and enigmatic young ward. Norwegian Game of the Year 2019.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to The NADI Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The NADI Project.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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The Room
Single-player alternative to The NADI Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The NADI Project.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
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Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
Single-player alternative to The NADI Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The NADI Project.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
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Home
Single-player alternative to The NADI Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The NADI Project.
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
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Homesick
Single-player alternative to The NADI Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The NADI Project.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to The NADI Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The NADI Project.
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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Dear Esther
Single-player alternative to The NADI Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The NADI Project.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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OMEGA: The Beginning - Episode 1
Single-player alternative to The NADI Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The NADI Project.
OMEGA: The Beginning is a three-part graphic adventure about enduring friendship and teenage bullying.
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A Painter's Tale: Curon, 1950
Single-player alternative to The NADI Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The NADI Project.
“A Painter's Tale” is an adventure game that tells the story of the tiny Südtirol village of Curon Venosta by mixing reality and fiction. The old Curon was flooded by the waters of Lake Reschen in 1950 due to the construction of a dam. What lies beneath the bell tower still emerging from the lake?