Single-player games like Stonewall Penitentiary
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Stonewall Penitentiary, 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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Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
Explore a small country town with a twisted secret in this dark, Twin Peaks-inspired mystery text adventure that combines the best elements of classic interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks.
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Myst
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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寇莎梅特：困世迷情 Consummate:Missing World
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
This is a cure Department of small fresh plot to the chamber of Secrets escape game, rich in 18 kinds of endings, a lot of funny content and hidden secrets.
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Prominence
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
When the interstellar mission to colonize a new world goes terribly awry, the fate of the Letarri people falls into the hands of a lone adventurer. Now it's up to you to unravel the mystery of what happened. Can you save them and their mission, or is it already too late?
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Gray Dawn
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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Outlast 2
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
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CUBE
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
Enter the world of CUBE: simple yet sophisticated. Master challenging jumps in a hostile environment where movement only occurs mid-air. Collect cubes, boost your score, and enjoy this relaxing, immersive game.
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And No One Was There
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
This deeply personal, atmospheric journey leads you through a childhood home now filled with shadows and silence. Exploring and uncovering old diaries, notes, and open meaning evokes melancholy, nostalgia, and reflection on loss, memory, and the bonds that tie us to home.
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Hex Judge
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
Interrogate villagers, uncover their secrets, and decide who will burn before sunset.
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Lifestream - A Haunting Text Adventure
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
Find your missing father and uncover the dark conspiracy surrounding a sacred artifact and an enigmatic brotherhood in this haunting text adventure that combines the best elements of classic interactive fiction and gamebooks.
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The Filmmaker - A Text Adventure
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
Explore an abandoned movie theater and step inside five black-and-white films in this mystery text adventure that pays tribute to classic Hollywood B-Movies and combines the best elements of interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks.
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Summit of the Wolf
Single-player alternative to Stonewall Penitentiary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stonewall Penitentiary.
Summit of the Wolf is a poignant point-and-click narrative adventure about trauma and hope. A young girl wakes in an ethereal garden and sets out on a personal journey to the fabled Summit of the Wolf, whereupon she must uncover the tragic events that led to her arrival in this fantasy realm.