Single-player games like NUTS
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to NUTS, 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 Cadet Files : Scene Unseen
Single-player alternative to NUTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with NUTS.
Against Time Challenging Mystery Solving GameNavigate crime scenes in 'The Cadet Files: Scene Unseen', using your tablet to solve puzzles and find hidden objects. Test your detective skills in a world of intrigue! Unravel mysteries, master new challenges,progress through levels.
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The Operator
Single-player alternative to NUTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with NUTS.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
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For What Will Come
Single-player alternative to NUTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
Embark down the small path of a girl named Abby as she goes back home and digs through her childhood, reliving the past to help reveal the secrets of what actually happened. What will you uncover? Will the family mystery end with you, or will it be just another legend. REIMAGINED VERSION OUT NOW!!
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Taiga
Single-player alternative to NUTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
Taiga is an atmospheric first person horror game with elements of survival. Explore the maze like forest, Uncover dark secrets that lay beneath pine and spruce. Save your colleagues if you can, but most importantly. Escape with your life.
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Kona II: Brume
Single-player alternative to NUTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
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Mystery Trails
Single-player alternative to NUTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
Delve into a first-person atmospheric adventure game, where you’re a mountain rescuer and a hiking guide who has just received information about an accident in the area. You know it might be too late for the victims, and soon you realize something strange happened out there.
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Abnormal1999:Sector 49
Single-player alternative to NUTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
Abnormal1999: Sector 49 is a challenging mystery puzzle game. You play as Sam, searching for your daughter in the abandoned Sector 49. Collect 10 consciousnesses to open the portal and escape.
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Rooten
Single-player alternative to NUTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
There is only you and the Forest. In "Rooten" there are no compulsory tasks, time just goes by, and days pass by independently of you. You can explore the Forest, try to get out, or even do nothing at all. The forest has always been here, and always will be. You won't change it no matter what.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to NUTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.