Single-player games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, 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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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
A true, full-length open-world game for VR has arrived from Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim VR reimagines the complete epic fantasy masterpiece with an unparalleled sense of scale, depth, and immersion. Skyrim VR also includes all official add-ons.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009)
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
PUBLISHER UPDATE - This is the product page for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, released in 2009. ---The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created.
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Dragon's Dogma 2
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.
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Block Story™
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
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Two Worlds Epic Edition
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
... 300 years after Aziraal has been banished, a brother and sister are drawn into the conflict which has flared up between the Orcs and the free world. Kyra, the hero's younger sister, suddenly disappears in mysterious circumstances.«...If my family really belongs to the chosen ones, why then have we always been as poor as church mice?
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Divinity II: Developer's Cut
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Dragons: they have been hunted, they have been slain, but now the hour to strike back has come.
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GreedFall
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Engage in a core roleplaying experience, and forge the destiny of a new world seeping with magic, and filled with riches, lost secrets, and fantastic creatures. With diplomacy, deception and force, become part of a living, evolving world - influence its course and shape your story.
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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Set in a huge open world, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen presents a rewarding action combat experience.
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning™
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
The minds of New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion lead designer Ken Rolston have combined to create Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a new role-playing game set in a world worth saving.
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ELDEN RING
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
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Mass Effect (2007)
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
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Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.
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Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Experience Aloy’s legendary quest to unravel the mysteries of a future Earth ruled by Machines. Use devastating tactical attacks against your prey and explore a majestic open world in this award-winning action RPG!
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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Starfield
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.
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Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.