Single-player games like Twelve Knots
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Twelve Knots, 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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Hitchhiking to Hell
Single-player alternative to Twelve Knots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Twelve Knots.
A hitchhiking journey through empty roads where every car could be your salvation… or your end. Walk through desolate places and encounter bizarre strangers along the way. Talk, decide, and survive unpredictable encounters as rumors of a roadside killer spread. While travelling towards the unknown.
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Our Blood Ties
Single-player alternative to Twelve Knots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Knots.
In this psychological horror game, investigate an abandoned family home and communicate with the ghosts that haunt it. Explore their minds as they show you their deepest and darkest memories and solve puzzles as you navigate mind-bending worlds conjured by the dead.
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Fire Lookout: Abandoned Post
Single-player alternative to Twelve Knots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Knots.
Fire Lookout: Abandoned Post is a first-person psychological horror and narrative-driven mystery solving game. Where you play as a newly stationed lookout in Summit Ridge National Park. Can you solve the mystery?
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TRANSMIT
Single-player alternative to Twelve Knots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Twelve Knots.
A 1-bit, point & click and puzzle short story about horror, mystery and deception. TRANSMIT, translate and search for coded messages as part of your telegraph operator job and figure out what's behind the new SS PURGO.
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Deadly Rehearsal
Single-player alternative to Twelve Knots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Knots.
The rehearsal must be flawless. Every sound, every light timed perfectly. You are one of the best stage manager's after all. Failure is not an option. The play is cursed... and it demands perfection.
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Myth of Valderit
Single-player alternative to Twelve Knots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Twelve Knots.
Nil is trapped in a cursed village that appears only under the full moon. To escape, he must solve twisted puzzles and uncover hidden secrets. Myth of Valderit is a first-person psychological horror experience. The village is alive. It remembers. And it knows your deepest fears.
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Don't Be Afraid 2
Single-player alternative to Twelve Knots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Knots.
Descend deep into the nightmare that seamlessly blends with reality in this uncanny horror escape room game. Can you find your way out of the horrid mansion or will you succumb to your fears? Can you face and overcome your past, or will it break you?
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Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
Single-player alternative to Twelve Knots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Knots.
This is an isolated town, a town of memories that have been forgotten by its people. However, this small town has not been quiet and peaceful since the murders began... Time passes by, where are the sinful spirits going? Are my memories reality, or just a dream?