Single-player games like DESOLUS
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to DESOLUS, 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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Cape Hideous
Single-player alternative to DESOLUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
Amongst the motliest of all crews, an enigmatic woman prepares the ship to enter an intense thunderstorm raging in the middle of the ocean. What otherworldly mysteries lie within?
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PALINGENESIS
Single-player alternative to DESOLUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with DESOLUS.
A music-driven puzzle adventure where sound shapes the world. Solve mysteries, escape the Human Wheel, and experience the album by GRIGS in PALINGENESIS.
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PsyX
Single-player alternative to DESOLUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
Sometimes, regrets come too late. When you're over 40, you start to rethink your life. You remember people and events that completely changed you. I will tell you 7 stories that happened to me in childhood, after which I became a different person.
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Oceanarium
Single-player alternative to DESOLUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
Oceanarium is a meditative underwater interplanetary exploration game about all the forces that tie the strange creatures of the universe together.
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Polly's Puzzle Box
Single-player alternative to DESOLUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
As a small flea, explore a mysterious puzzle box filled with shapes and secrets. Gather strange items with hidden abilities, and unravel a trail of clues as you attempt to escape.
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Hyperbolica
Single-player alternative to DESOLUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
Hyperbolica is a whimsical Non-Euclidean adventure with mind-bending worlds full of games, puzzles, mazes, and secrets! Immerse yourself in reality-warping geometries where lines can never be parallel, horizons are curved, and space grows exponentially.
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Superliminal
Single-player alternative to DESOLUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DESOLUS.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
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RUBATO
Single-player alternative to DESOLUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
RUBATO, an experimental, 2D physics-based take on the collect-a-thon genre!