Single-player games like Superliminal
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Superliminal, 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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Viewfinder
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Superliminal.
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Superliminal.
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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Manifold Garden
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Superliminal.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Superliminal.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
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Supraland
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Superliminal.
Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.
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Subliminal
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Superliminal.
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Superliminal.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Oneiros
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Superliminal.
Will you be able to break the vicious circle? Can you regain control? Experience the surreal adventure filled with many puzzles and psychedelic visions.
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The Witness
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Superliminal.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Superliminal.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Superliminal.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Superliminal.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
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Q.U.B.E. 2
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Superliminal.
Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.
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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Superliminal.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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FEZ
Single-player alternative to Superliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.