Single-player games like Blackwell Deception
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Blackwell Deception, 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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Blackwell Unbound
Single-player alternative to Blackwell Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwell Deception.
The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.
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The Blackwell Legacy
Single-player alternative to Blackwell Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwell Deception.
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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Blackwell Epiphany
Single-player alternative to Blackwell Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwell Deception.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
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Blackwell Convergence
Single-player alternative to Blackwell Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwell Deception.
The third game in the Blackwell series
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Unavowed
Single-player alternative to Blackwell Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwell Deception.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to Blackwell Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwell Deception.
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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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to Blackwell Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwell Deception.
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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Shardlight
Single-player alternative to Blackwell Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwell Deception.
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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Old Skies
Single-player alternative to Blackwell Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Blackwell Deception.
A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.
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Emerald City Confidential™
Single-player alternative to Blackwell Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Blackwell Deception.
<p>Work with the world's most cunning detective in the shadowy underbelly of the Emerald City of Oz! As Petra, you'll be lured deep into mysteries involving new foes and familiar faces; Scarecrow, Lion, and Toto included. This is Oz as you've never seen it before!