Single-player games like Hostil
Below are 17 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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Missi
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
Missi is a cozy point & click game in a watercolor hand-drawn world. Solve puzzles together with a cute white mouse, using clues in sketches of past adventures. Try to trick the Mushroom Spider and the Crow King by collecting all medicinal herbs for her sick son.
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The Fire Nobody Started
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
This is a train to 21C, via 19C. Passengers will require a valid click to use this service. Passengers are advised that this train consists of 9 cars, divided by each era. Please mind the fire. This train is ready to depart, please stand clear of the fire.
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Pine: A Story of Loss
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale.
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Miniatures
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
A collection of surreal tales, each connected to a stored-away object from childhood. Pick one to follow the moon, feed a hungry lizard or build a peculiar cabinet.
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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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All You Can Eat
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hostil.
Meet a modern hero of our times, a man so lazy he decided to quit his job and just spend his life inside an All-you-can-eat diner. As years go by, his freeloading nature becomes legend, but then a tragedy occurs - the diner is about to close down! Will he settle down and get a regular job? Never!!!
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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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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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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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DIG THE GROUND
Single-player alternative to Hostil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Hostil.
Dig the Ground is a unique Match3 puzzler in which you have to match gems of the same color and use all sorts of tools to clear the ground tiles beneath you.
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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.