Single-player games like Escape from Monkey Island™
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Escape from Monkey Island™, 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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The Curse of Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Escape from Monkey Island™.
The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?
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Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Escape from Monkey Island™.
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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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Escape from Monkey Island™.
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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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Escape from Monkey Island™.
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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Sam & Max Hit the Road
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Escape from Monkey Island™.
Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case.
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Maniac Mansion
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Escape from Monkey Island™.
Quick, Dr. Fred's Kidnapped Sandy and he's about to start the experiment...
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The Book of Unwritten Tales
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Escape from Monkey Island™.
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 Longest Journey
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Escape from Monkey Island™.
The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.
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Grim Fandango Remastered
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Escape from Monkey Island™.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
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STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
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STAR WARS™ - The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A game that will show gamers the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that puts them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself.
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STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995)
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Behind a veil of secrecy the evil Empire is creating a doomsday army - one that, if finished, will become the final cog in the Empire's arsenal of terror and domination. Your Mission? Join the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division, infiltrate the Empire.
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STAR WARS™ Episode I Racer
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Two Engines. One Champion. No Limits.
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STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Single-player alternative to Escape from Monkey Island™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II picks up where the award-winning Dark Forces™ game left off...with even more features and firepower in dazzling 3D graphics. As Kyle Katarn, you must acquire a lightsaber and learn the ways of the Force to become a Jedi Knight.