Single-player games like The Forgotten City
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Forgotten 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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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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Eternal Threads
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
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The Old City: Leviathan
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
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Elsinore
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover.
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Grunn
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
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Blue Prince
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?
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Paradise Killer
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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18 MINUTES
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Forgotten City.
18 Minutes is a single player FPS that combines stealthy precision with heart-pounding action. Engage in intense firefights, strategically infiltrate enemy base, and make split- second decision to outmaneuver enemy. Get ready for a gaming experience that offers the best of stealth and FPS action
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Forgotten City.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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Detroit: Become Human
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
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.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.