Single-player games like Jolly Rover
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Jolly Rover, 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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Puzzle Agent 2
Single-player alternative to Jolly Rover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Jolly Rover.
Agent Nelson Tethers just solved his biggest case yet. So why isn't he satisfied? Venture back to eerie Scoggins, Minnesota to solve the mystery of "the Hidden People" once and for all!
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Hidden Folks
Single-player alternative to Jolly Rover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jolly Rover.
Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!
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Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
Single-player alternative to Jolly Rover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jolly Rover.
Pirate heroine Nelly Cootalot takes on the villainous Baron Widebeard in this point and click adventure game. Meet a hilarious cast of characters including Tom Baker (Dr Who) and face perplexing challenges in your search for the Treasure of the Seventh Sea.
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Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Single-player alternative to Jolly Rover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Jolly Rover.
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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FRAMED Collection
Single-player alternative to Jolly Rover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jolly Rover.
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.
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Duke Grabowski: Mighty Swashbuckler
Single-player alternative to Jolly Rover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jolly Rover.
Duke Grabowski is a classic point-and-click adventure, created with love by an indie team that includes Bill Tiller (The Curse of Monkey Island, Steven Spielberg's The Dig, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine).
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Return to Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Jolly Rover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Jolly Rover.
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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Tiny Bridge: Ratventure
Single-player alternative to Jolly Rover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jolly Rover.
This mind-bending game will challenge you to create complex structures to get your woodland creatures over vast chasms. In a bridge-builder first, you'll guide your creatures and construct your bridges in real time. Use the weight of various creatures to balance your structures as you build them.
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Sierra Madre: The Wild West
Single-player alternative to Jolly Rover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jolly Rover.
Sierra Madre: The Wild West is a western, open world first person shooter survival game set in the 1870s. You play as a U.S. Marshall in the Wild West. Hunt outlaws, save the locals, and do whatever it takes to survive in your quest to rid the Wild West of injustice.
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MacGuffin's Curse
Single-player alternative to Jolly Rover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jolly Rover.
Sneak and smash your way through this fiendishly addictive comedy-puzzle-adventure
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Warp Frontier
Single-player alternative to Jolly Rover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jolly Rover.
In the year 2215, orbiting humanity's newest extrasolar colony, Police Captain Vincent Cassini becomes embroiled in an intersystem conspiracy to bury crimes that occurred during the war that devastated his planet.