Single-player games like Nauticrawl
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Nauticrawl, 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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In Other Waters
Single-player alternative to Nauticrawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nauticrawl.
Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?
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Chants of Sennaar
Single-player alternative to Nauticrawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nauticrawl.
In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.
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The Franz Kafka Videogame
Single-player alternative to Nauticrawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nauticrawl.
An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.
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Trauma
Single-player alternative to Nauticrawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nauticrawl.
An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.
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FAR: Lone Sails
Single-player alternative to Nauticrawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nauticrawl.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
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Teslagrad
Single-player alternative to Nauticrawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nauticrawl.
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
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Machinarium
Single-player alternative to Nauticrawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nauticrawl.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Nauticrawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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A Rogue Escape
Single-player alternative to Nauticrawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Nauticrawl.
It was your only way off this forsaken planet, but standing aboard a colossal stolen mech, you find yourself surrounded by unfamiliar buttons, levers, and monitors. In full VR, push, pull, press and hack everything you can find in an attempt to activate this lumbering beast and make your escape.