Single-player games like Lamplight City
Below are 17 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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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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Unforeseen Incidents
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper Pendrell and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game.
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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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Thimbleweed Park™
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.
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The Darkside Detective
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Lamplight City.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
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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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Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Legends of the past come back to life in this charming point-and-click adventure. Pack your bags and journey with Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit through modern day Europe to uncover the conspiracy behind a cursed relic and the secrets of the King who was never crowned.
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Technobabylon
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie 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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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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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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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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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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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lamplight City.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
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Beyond a Steel Sky
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie 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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An English Haunting
Single-player alternative to Lamplight City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lamplight City.
While looking for the existence of the Great Beyond, Professor Patrick Moore, aided by a fake medium, will build a device to see the other side, embark on a search for a millenary artifact, and investigate the most haunted manor of 1907 England.
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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.