Single-player games like Hector: Episode 1
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Hector: Episode 1, 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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Hector: Badge of Carnage - Full Series
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Hector: Episode 1.
All 3 episodes available now - get the full season!
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Hector: Episode 2
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
All 3 episodes available now - get the full season!
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Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
In this latest chapter from the award-winning studio behind Batman - The Telltale Series, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis.
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Critters for Sale
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
Experience death from the comfort of your seat.
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Harvester
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
A strange and twisted world...Harvester! The most violent adventure game of all time comes to Steam!
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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A Sceptic's Guide to Magic
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
Birmingham, England: 1993. A shocking ritual murder compels a world-weary forensic investigator to discover a hidden realm of witchcraft, gods and demons. Follow clues and use magic to solve the case, with moral choices leading to multiple possible endings.
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Metal Dead
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
A hilariously terrifying adventure filled with laughs, blood, insanity, and of course... hordes of the undead.
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Return to Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Hector: Episode 1.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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Batman - The Telltale Series
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
Enter the fractured psyche of Bruce Wayne and discover the powerful and far-reaching consequences of your choices as the Dark Knight.
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Puzzle Agent
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!
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Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters.
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Puzzle Agent 2
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
Agent Nelson Tethers just solved his biggest case yet. So why isn't he satisfied? Venture back to eerie Scoggins, Minnesota to solve the mystery of "the Hidden People" once and for all!
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Season 1
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Hector: Episode 1.
Enjoy Strong Bad's wacky comedic adventures over 5 full episodes!
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Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures
Single-player alternative to Hector: Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Hector: Episode 1.
Enter the colorful world of West Wallaby Street in a series of four cracking adventures brought to you by Aardman Animations, the creators of the Wallace & Gromit animated films, and award-winning Telltale Games.