Single-player games like The Longest Journey
Below are 15 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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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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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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Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
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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Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
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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Lumino City
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Longest Journey.
The BAFTA award winning handmade puzzle adventure game made entirely by hand. Explore the city and use your ingenuity to piece together puzzling mechanisms and bring back power to this unique world. Three years in the making, it's handmade entirely out of paper, card, miniature lights and motors.
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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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Persona 5 Royal
Single-player alternative to The Longest Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Longest Journey.
Don the mask and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they stage grand heists, infiltrate the minds of the corrupt, and make them change their ways!
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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.