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Single-player games like The Black Widow

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Black Widow, 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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    GLAD VALAKAS SIMULATOR — Steam game cover

    GLAD VALAKAS SIMULATOR

    Single-player alternative to The Black Widow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Black Widow.

    GLAD VALAKAS SIMULATOR is a game about the most famous Russian streamer. You need to live 10 days in the image for the protagonist of the game.

    2018IndieAdventureSimulation0.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Monsters' History Book — Steam game cover

    The Monsters' History Book

    Single-player alternative to The Black Widow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Black Widow.

    Beyond horrible, odd and black feelings, while there is a sincere relationship.However,The horrors more terrible than all these, become increasingly clear as the two linger around in the school. The nervous history of the bizarre deaths replays again as the history book be opened.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    My Time at Portia — Steam game cover

    My Time at Portia

    Single-player alternative to The Black Widow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Black Widow.

    Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Emily is Away Too — Steam game cover

    Emily is Away Too

    Single-player alternative to The Black Widow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Black Widow.

    Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Plebby Quest: The Crusades — Steam game cover

    Plebby Quest: The Crusades

    Single-player alternative to The Black Widow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Black Widow.

    Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”

    2020ActionStrategyIndie3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tech Support: Error Unknown — Steam game cover

    Tech Support: Error Unknown

    Single-player alternative to The Black Widow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Black Widow.

    Things are not what they seem at your new tech support specialist job. While resolving customer issues, you soon find yourself in the middle of a conspiracy. Will you side with your employer, join a rogue hacktivist group bent on destroying them, assist the police or stand alone?

    2019IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor — Steam game cover

    Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor

    Single-player alternative to The Black Widow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Black Widow.

    Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an anti-adventure game about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. Play as the Janitor, an Alaensee girlbeast with a municipally-subsidized trash incineration job and dreams of leaving the planet of Xabran's Rock far behind her.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gleaner Heights — Steam game cover

    Gleaner Heights

    Single-player alternative to The Black Widow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Black Widow.

    Experience the old-school charm of classic farming games with the suburban gothic atmosphere of certain 90's TV shows, along with contemporary game mechanics. Farming, crafting, combat, romantic relationships and mysterious events await!

    2018ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →