Single-player games like Born Punk
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Born Punk, 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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Technobabylon
Single-player alternative to Born Punk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Born Punk.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
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VirtuaVerse
Single-player alternative to Born Punk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Born Punk.
VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.
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ENCODYA
Single-player alternative to Born Punk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Born Punk.
Neo Berlin 2062. Tina – a nine-year-old orphan – lives with SAM-53 – her big clumsy robot guardian –in a rooftop makeshift shelter in Neo-Berlin, a dark megalopolis controlled by corporations.
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Whispers of a Machine
Single-player alternative to Born Punk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Born Punk.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Single-player alternative to Born Punk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Born Punk.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
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Monolith
Single-player alternative to Born Punk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Born Punk.
A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Born Punk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Born Punk.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Nine Noir Lives
Single-player alternative to Born Punk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Born Punk.
Stretch your legs, clean your whiskers, and dive into Nine Noir Lives. Enjoy a "point-and-lick" comedy-noir adventure, full of humour, crazy characters, and intriguing locations. Solve challenging puzzles and answer the immortal question: how many things need to be licked to solve a murder in this town?
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Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)
Single-player alternative to Born Punk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Born Punk.
After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny of a fascist AI. Alone, save for the circuit board of his best friend, Foster must discover the sinister truth - and why they specifically came for him.