Single-player games like The Longest Journey
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to The Longest Journey, 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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Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Longest Journey.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey, considered to be one of the finest adventure games ever made.
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The Book of Unwritten Tales
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.
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Dreamfall Chapters
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
The Final Cut is the ultimate collector's edition of Dreamfall Chapters, a story-driven 3D adventure about choice and consequence, set in parallel worlds: a cyberpunk vision of the future and a magical fantasy realm.
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Broken Age
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
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A New Beginning - Final Cut
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
A New Beginning is a cinematic adventure-thriller done graphic novel-style.
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The Dark Eye: Memoria
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
In Memoria, players travel through different time periods, following two distinct protagonists: Sadja, a southern princess who wants to be a war hero, and Geron, a bird catcher who wants to lift a curse from his girlfriend.
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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
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The Curse of Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?
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Sea of Stars
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Longest Journey.
Sea of Stars is a turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform Eclipse Magic, the only force capable of fending off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as The Fleshmancer.
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Metaphor: ReFantazio
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Longest Journey.
After his assassination, the will of the late king decrees the next monarch to be elected by the people. Forge bonds and win over a kingdom divided in this award-winning fantasy RPG with turn-based and action combat, party customization with powerful Archetypes, and hours of exploration.
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Conan Exiles
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Longest Journey.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
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Dune: Awakening
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
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The Park®
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
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Anarchy Online
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Longest Journey.
Anarchy Online – the first ever science fiction MMO – is now on Steam! Compete and cooperate with thousands of players simultaneously on a vast, alien world. Join humanity nearly 30,000 years in the future in a world of perpetual conflict and scientific marvel.