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Single-player games like Preston Sterling

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Preston Sterling, 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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    Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — Steam game cover

    Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Broken Sword 4 - the Angel of Death (2006) — Steam game cover

    Broken Sword 4 - the Angel of Death (2006)

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    When a mysterious and beautiful woman rushes into George Stobbart’s office, pleading for help, he cannot know that he will be inextricably drawn into terrifying conspiracy, and a desperate search for a nefarious artifact of great and terrible power. For George, it looks like the world needs saving. Again.

    2014IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dracula: Origin — Steam game cover

    Dracula: Origin

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Preston Sterling.

    Dracula: Origin reveals the dark origins of the Dracula curse. Step into the shoes of the famous Professor Van Helsing and experience a thrilling journey that will take you from London to Egypt, Austria and through Carpathian Europe right into the terrifying lair of the Dark Prince.

    2008AdventureCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bayou Island - Point and Click Adventure — Steam game cover

    Bayou Island - Point and Click Adventure

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    Make your way through this thrilling old school style point and click adventure game and try to solve the mysterious circumstances plaguing Bayou Island.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Echo Tokyo: An Intro — Steam game cover

    Echo Tokyo: An Intro

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    An Interactive graphic novel and a Kinetic Graphic novel to enjoy, Set within a cyber punk dystopian future. With full professional voice acting for every line and steam achievements.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition — Steam game cover

    Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    The gates to another world will open soon! You can stop the impending disaster, but to do so at all costs to return the stolen stamps! Vanessa is the only heiress of Abraham Van Helsinga, a member of the secret order of light guarding the peace of our world.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dreamscapes: Nightmare's Heir - Premium Edition — Steam game cover

    Dreamscapes: Nightmare's Heir - Premium Edition

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    The Sandman came back to take revenge. This time his victim is Tim, Laura’s husband. Will you succeed in pulling him out of nightmare?

    2015IndieAdventureCasual6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    FRAMED Collection — Steam game cover

    FRAMED Collection

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    Rearrange the panels of an animated comic book to craft the story of a noir-styled spy adventure in the FRAMED Collection--a compilation of the multi-award winning puzzle games FRAMED and FRAMED 2.

    2018IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lost Horizon — Steam game cover

    Lost Horizon

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    1936: Soldiers of the Third Reich roam the world seeking occult weapons for their insane plans of conquest. When Fenton Paddock, a former British soldier and hapless smuggler, is asked to look for his friend Richard, who went missing in Tibet, he has no idea that this search will lead him across three continents to a secret that could...

    2010Adventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Secret Files: Tunguska — Steam game cover

    Secret Files: Tunguska

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    Unravel one of the greatest mysteries of our time! On the 30th June 1908 an explosion with the combined energy of 2000 Hiroshima bombs rocked the region of Tunguska in Central Siberia and felled over 6,000 square km of trees. The explosion could be heard from as far as 1,000km away.

    2009Adventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Monolith — Steam game cover

    Monolith

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.

    2023IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis — Steam game cover

    Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    The sequel to the award winning adventure hit Secret Files Tunguska. Famine in Africa, floods in Southeast Asia, economic crisis in Europe, and civil wars in South America, the world is on the brink of disaster.

    2009Adventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Secret Files: Sam Peters — Steam game cover

    Secret Files: Sam Peters

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman, the Loch Ness Monster - cryptozoologists are trying to track these creatures down and research them. One also appears in the legends of the Ashanti people in Ghana. These tell of human-like creatures that lurk in the trees at night and take their victims off to their caves to suck their blood: the...

    2013Adventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Secret Files 3 — Steam game cover

    Secret Files 3

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    The bestselling Secret Files franchise celebrates its return! The dream couple Max and Nina have announced their forthcoming wedding.

    2012Adventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gabby's Odyssey — Steam game cover

    Gabby's Odyssey

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    Embark on a journey through the fantastical world of Larion in this action-adventure inspired by timeless classics of the genre. Solve clever puzzles, overcome perilous dungeons, and unlock new abilities — while discovering that imagination is not a weakness, but a force that can change everything.

    2027ActionAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Secret Files: Tunguska - Remastered — Steam game cover

    Secret Files: Tunguska - Remastered

    Single-player alternative to Preston Sterling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Preston Sterling.

    The award-winning adventure classic returns as a remaster with modernized visuals and updated technology. Join Nina and Max on a globe-spanning investigation filled with puzzles, conspiracies, and danger – and uncover the secret of Tunguska that changes everything!

    2026AdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →