Single-player games like Hostil
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Hostil, 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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Pilgrims
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?
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Monolith
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.
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My Brother Rabbit
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
My Brother Rabbit is a beautifully drawn exploration adventure and puzzle game set in a surreal world that mixes reality with a child’s imagination.
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
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Heaven's Vault
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
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Some Distant Memory
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.
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Gorogoa
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.
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Journal
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
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The Witness
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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The Banner Saga
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hostil.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
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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Oculto
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
A mining space station doesn't respond to communications. An investigator tries to find out what happened to the crew. Oculto is a zero-gravity narrative action adventure full of danger and mystery.