Single-player games like Lamplight City
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Lamplight City, 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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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
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Rosewater
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.
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Whispers of a Machine
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lamplight City.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
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The Blackwell Legacy
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
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Chinatown Detective Agency
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lamplight City.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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The Crimson Diamond
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lamplight City.
Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!
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Nine Noir Lives
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Stretch your legs, clean your whiskers, and dive into Nine Noir Lives. Enjoy a "point-and-lick" comedy-noir adventure, full of humour, crazy characters, and intriguing locations. Solve challenging puzzles and answer the immortal question: how many things need to be licked to solve a murder in this town?
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Technobabylon
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
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Shardlight
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
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Resonance
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
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Primordia
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
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Beyond a Steel Sky
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.
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A Golden Wake
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
The rise and fall story of a real estate agent in 1920s Miami. Based on historical events. From Francisco González, creator of the Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator series, Shardlight, and Lamplight City.