Single-player games like The Sinking City Remastered
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to The Sinking City Remastered, 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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Call of Cthulhu®
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
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SUNLESS SEA
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
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The Sinking City 2
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
Set in the Roaring '20s, The Sinking City 2 is a survival horror steeped in Lovecraftian dread. Defy an eldritch deity and explore the drowned alleys of Arkham, stalked by the dead, as you weigh one life against an entire city.
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Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
Experience a nerve-racking Lovecraftian adventure, rebuilt from the ground up with modern graphics and gameplay. Become Sherlock Holmes, and find yourself at the heart of the terrifying Cthulhu Mythos as you investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in Europe and the US.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
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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Stygian: Outer Gods
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Sinking City Remastered.
Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?
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Murdered: Soul Suspect
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.
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The Evil Within 2
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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The Forgotten City
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…
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Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
The ABC Murders is an adventure and investigation game adapted from the classic Agatha Christie novel. You are the famous private detective Hercule Poirot and, once again, you find yourself up against a mysterious serial killer who goes by the name of "ABC".
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Judgement
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
Judgement is a story-driven, decision-making adventure game, where your Judgement can mean the difference between life, death, or somewhere in between. It's a game of morality and how gray it can be.
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The Painscreek Killings
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
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Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.
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The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
Become the greatest detective of all time in The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, a twisting, turning investigation game set in a faithfully-reproduced London of 1898. As Sherlock Holmes, you must find clues, interrogate suspects and unveil a mystery in a story full of twists!
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Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
Recognized as one of the best licenses in gaming and lauded by the press, Sherlock Holmes is back with an investigation that is sure to be the most horrifying of the series. The famous detective stands against the most dangerous serial killer England has ever known - Jack the Ripper.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
The Sherlock Holmes series returns with this updated version of The Awakened, which brings a whole new dimension to the original title developed by Frogwares. The game puts the player into an investigation of the Cthulhu Mythos - as imagined by Father of modern horror, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring
Single-player alternative to The Sinking City Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Sinking City Remastered.
Melvyn Bromsby, a rich tycoon, is about to make a statement, when suddenly a shot rings out. Sir Bromsby collapses - a mortal wound to the heart... A baffling murder, dozens of witnesses and no suspects! You, Sherlock Holmes, must use all your skills to shed light on this mysterious case.