Single-player games like Maniac Mansion
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Maniac Mansion, 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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Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in what has long been considered one of the greatest LucasArts adventure games of all time.
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The Curse of Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
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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Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
Space Aliens have built a stupidity machine that's slowly reducing everyone's IQ to single digits. Worse yet, the only person who can stop them is Zak McKracken, reporter for the disreputable National Inquisitor, who dreams up stories about carnivorous cantaloupes and vegetarian vampires.
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Full Throttle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1995, Full Throttle is a classic graphic adventure game from industry legend Tim Schafer, telling the story of Ben Throttle; butt-kicking leader of biker gang the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale of Motorcycles, Mayhem and Murder.
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Sam & Max Hit the Road
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case.
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The Night of the Rabbit
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
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The Book of Unwritten Tales
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Indiana Jones® and the Last Crusade™
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
Europe, 1938: The lost Ark was just a warm-up! Now Adolf Hitler is after the most powerful talisman of all - the Holy Grail. A few brave men stand in his way. Fortunately, one of them is Indiana Jones, and this time he has his dad with him.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Until Dawn™
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
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The Rocky Horror Show Video Game
Single-player alternative to Maniac Mansion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maniac Mansion.
A strange journey