Single-player games like The Invisible Hours
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to The Invisible Hours, 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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TEMPUS
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Invisible Hours.
TEMPUS is a puzzle adventure game with time travel. Each time you advance, you will see the island where you live change over thousands of years. You can only travel forward so it is a one way trip, how far will you go?
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Cold Start: The Callisto
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Invisible Hours.
A sci-fi VR exploratory puzzle game, The Callisto pushes the boundaries of VR with stunning visuals, dynamic puzzles, and a rich storyline that unfolds piece-by-piece through your own exploration.
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Dark Trip
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Dark Trip is a gothic horror escape room where you use wicked biomachinery, strange art and your own hallucinations to solve the mystery of an eerie crime. Explore strange rooms, inspect occult locations and laboratory machines, reveal hidden clues through altered visions. Play flat or in VR.
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Riven
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Invisible Hours.
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
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Fire Escape
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Invisible Hours.
A neo-Hitchock murder mystery set in Brooklyn. When the clock strikes eight, a suspenseful thriller begins to unfold in real time. Watch closely from the fire escape as your suspicious neighbors embroil you in a simmering, interactive crime.
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Curious Cases
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Invisible Hours.
For Desktop or VR! In this 3 chapter story, you play as a modern day legend, Detective Thomas Moore. He has solved more cases than one can count, where others hit dead-ends, he gets to work.
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DYSCHRONIA: Chronos Alternate - Dual Edition
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Solve an impossible murder case in the far-flung future in this VR & Non-VR investigation action adventure! Multi-awarded title DYSCHRONIA: Chronos Alternate - Dual Edition contains all three episodes from the acclaimed trilogy.
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DESOLATIUM: Prologue
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
DESOLATIUM: PROLOGUE is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.
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The Sexy Brutale
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
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The Council
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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State of Mind
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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RiME
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
A land of discovery stretches out before you. Explore the beautiful, rugged world of RiME. Armed with your wits and a will to overcome—and the guidance of a helpful fox—you must explore the enigmatic island, reach the tower's peak, and unlock its closely guarded secrets.
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Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Two best friends, one wild adventure. Join best friends Nunu and Willump on an adventure across the frozen wilds of the Freljord. Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story is a single-player story adventure developed by Tequila Works.
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Deadlight: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.
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Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son
Single-player alternative to The Invisible Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
You’re stuck in a time loop as Phil Connors, Jr., back in Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day in this virtual reality game set in the world of the iconic hit movie. Solve puzzles and interact with branching narrative gameplay, to break the time-loop cycle to escape into tomorrow.