Single-player games like Milkmaid of the Milky Way
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Milkmaid of the Milky Way, 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 Charnel House Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
Witness The Charnel House Trilogy, the chronicle of one fateful night aboard a train bound for Augur Peak. Three thrilling, horrifying adventure games in one, from the depths of the Sepulchre, starring Madeleine Roux, Peter Willington, Jonathan Grier, Jim Sterling, and Ben Chandler as Grub.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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Lume
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
With a set built entirely out of paper and cardboard, and sumptuously filmed, Lume is a game with a style unlike any other.
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A Juggler's Tale
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?
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There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!
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The Procession to Calvary
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.
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Cleo - a pirate's tale
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
Cleo is a solo-developed, top-down, pixel-art, retro, pirate adventure with a lot of nostalgic flair, humor and a linear story, inspired by the old Zelda games and the classic LucasArts adventure games.
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The Shivah
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
Russell Stone is a Jewish Rabbi at a poor synagogue in New York City. He is a devout man with a problem. Membership is way down and he lacks the funds to keep his synagogue open. Things are looking very bleak, and he has grown progressively more cynical and bitter with the passage of time.
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Space Quest™ Collection
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
Experience a blast from the past with the complete, completely twisted Space Quest Collection.
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To the Moon
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
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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DIG THE GROUND
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
Dig the Ground is a unique Match3 puzzler in which you have to match gems of the same color and use all sorts of tools to clear the ground tiles beneath you.
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Return to Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
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Embracelet
Single-player alternative to Milkmaid of the Milky Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Milkmaid of the Milky Way.
Explore a beautiful, low-poly Norwegian island as 17-year-old Jesper. Armed with a mysterious, magical bracelet, you'll solve puzzles, uncover your grandfather's past, and make choices in this heartwarming coming-of-age story about love, friendship, and family.