Single-player games like Ladderhead
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Ladderhead, 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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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Ladderhead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ladderhead.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Single-player alternative to Ladderhead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ladderhead.
Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Ladderhead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ladderhead.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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Starbound
Single-player alternative to Ladderhead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ladderhead.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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LIMBO
Single-player alternative to Ladderhead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ladderhead.
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
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Torchlight II
Single-player alternative to Ladderhead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ladderhead.
The adventure continues in Torchlight II! An Action RPG filled with epic battles, bountiful treasure, and a fully randomized world. Bring your friends along for the journey with online and LAN multiplayer.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Ladderhead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ladderhead.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Ladderhead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ladderhead.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Desert of Vice
Single-player alternative to Ladderhead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ladderhead.
Solve your own murder in this horror text adventure with choice dependent endings. Explore an isolated desert town to figure out who murdered you - and why.
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Strange Aeons
Single-player alternative to Ladderhead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ladderhead.
You are stuck in gnostic cyber-hell. The followers of your cult are summoning you. Chat with an offline neural net AI through the microphone to escape hell and return to the land of the living.