Single-player games like SIMULACRA 2
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to SIMULACRA 2, 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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SIMULACRA 3
Single-player alternative to SIMULACRA 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with SIMULACRA 2.
The town of Stonecreek is haunted. People keep disappearing into thin air, leaving nothing but an eerie symbol behind. With the townsfolk gripped with fear, use a missing victim's phone to unlock the truth in the third entry of the acclaimed horror series, SIMULACRA.
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SIMULACRA
Single-player alternative to SIMULACRA 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with SIMULACRA 2.
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
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Ghostpunk
Single-player alternative to SIMULACRA 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with SIMULACRA 2.
Investigate paranormal cases using a 1990s CRT terminal. Analyze photos. Decode audio. Interrogate suspects and decide what’s real, what’s fake and who’s lying. But the deeper you go, the more the system starts watching you back.
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Netshell
Single-player alternative to SIMULACRA 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with SIMULACRA 2.
A 90s-themed hacking simulation with real shell commands and authentic techniques, set inside a UNIX-style operating system from 1997 with accurately recreated applications. Scan ports, exploit vulnerabilities, evade traces, join the underground, and live the Wild West era of the early internet.
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Please Insert Disc
Single-player alternative to SIMULACRA 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with SIMULACRA 2.
Please Insert Disc is a horror game about navigating the underbelly of a 2000's era gaming console to restore its functionality, but awakening something in the process. From the creators of Home Safety Hotline.
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SCP - The Sentient Box
Single-player alternative to SIMULACRA 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with SIMULACRA 2.
Investigate the life of John Doe as he resides in his lost memories in this story-driven Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that merges Your Real Life with science fiction as it explores the Dark Limits of Alternate History and The SCP Foundation.
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The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother
Single-player alternative to SIMULACRA 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with SIMULACRA 2.
The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.
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How To Hack In?
Single-player alternative to SIMULACRA 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with SIMULACRA 2.
A real-time hacking sandbox simulator with procedurally generated content. Multiple tools and techniques to use, multiple computers to hack, multiple missions to solve, and multiple vulnerabilities to exploit!
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to SIMULACRA 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time
Single-player alternative to SIMULACRA 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A new mysterious enemy threatens to tear apart the universe and only you can stop them! Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time lets players embark on an adventure through space and time. Travel across the universe, visit alien locations, pilot the TARDIS and solve the mystery of the controlling force behind the Reality Virus.
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Deadly Rehearsal
Single-player alternative to SIMULACRA 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with SIMULACRA 2.
The rehearsal must be flawless. Every sound, every light timed perfectly. You are one of the best stage manager's after all. Failure is not an option. The play is cursed... and it demands perfection.