Single-player games like The Forgotten City
Below are 15 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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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 Unclosed Case
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Truth is not singular. Gather the evidence, build your own scenario, and experience the outcome.
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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 Signifier Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.
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Shanghai Summer
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
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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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The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…
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The Witness
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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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 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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DEATHLOOP
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten City — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
DEATHLOOP is a next-gen FPS from Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio behind Dishonored. In DEATHLOOP, two rival assassins are trapped in a mysterious timeloop on the island of Blackreef, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity.
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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.