Single-player games like Doc Apocalypse
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Doc Apocalypse, 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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The Apotheosis Project
Single-player alternative to Doc Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doc Apocalypse.
Penelope Barker and Aaron S. Reid are agents of the extra-governmental Pandora Global Corp, which works in parallel with the CIA. Unbeknown to them, they are also guinea pigs in an ambitious and dangerous project...
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Machinarium
Single-player alternative to Doc Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doc Apocalypse.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
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Tales [PC]
Single-player alternative to Doc Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doc Apocalypse.
When an ancient curse is awakened in an old library, Alfred Walsh must travel to the strangest of places to seek help from many great heroes (and lesser ones) in an effort to save our beloved tales!
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Inbetween Land
Single-player alternative to Doc Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doc Apocalypse.
Open the portal to a strange world and save your friend with Inbetween Land, a stunning sci-fi adventure. There's a sense that something just isn't right when a childhood friend calls for you.
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Stories Untold
Single-player alternative to Doc Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doc Apocalypse.
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
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Lil' Guardsman
Single-player alternative to Doc Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doc Apocalypse.
Imagine you're a 12 year old, suddenly in charge of the guard shed at the castle gate, where you decide if elves, goblins and 100+ other characters should be admitted. It's a wonderful combination of deduction, narrative and puzzle games.
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Paradigm
Single-player alternative to Doc Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doc Apocalypse.
Paradigm is a surreal adventure game set in the strange and post apocalyptic Eastern European country of Krusz. Play as the handsome mutant, Paradigm, whose past comes back to haunt him in the form of a genetically engineered sloth that vomits candy.
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Rumu
Single-player alternative to Doc Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doc Apocalypse.
Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure that follows the path into sentience of a robot vacuum cleaner.
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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Single-player alternative to Doc Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Doc Apocalypse.
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Doc Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Doc Apocalypse.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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Deep Fringe
Single-player alternative to Doc Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Doc Apocalypse.
Deep Fringe is a deep tactical RPG set in a biopunk post-apocalyptic wasteland. Lead powerful factions in turn-based brutal battles, leveraging the strategic use of an interactive environment. Modify or destroy terrain to achieve tactical supremacy. Craft legendary chapters with the level editor.