Single-player games like Faraday Protocol
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Faraday Protocol, 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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Kredolis
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
You find yourself shipwrecked on a beautiful unsunken island that was once part of Atlantis. Explore the mysteries of the island, and solve unique puzzles to enter the sunken lighthouse into the depths of Atlantis.
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THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
Welcome to a breathtaking storyline full of portals, solving puzzles with an energy-absorbing weapon, and other adventures in a sci-fi atmosphere! Can you travel through parallel dimensions and uncover the secrets of your past?
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Pillars of Light
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
Pillars of Light is a first person action / puzzle game where you will have to continue what your family have done since the beginning of times : protect the world from shadows and make friend with Utu, the light god.
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Astro Link
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
Astro Link is a Portal-like puzzle game that takes place within the mysterious Astro Link facility. What happened to this place? Will test subject #602 be able to find out?
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Leap of Phase: Samantha
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
You thought it would be the chance of a lifetime when tech giant IRT hired you to work in their new testing facility. But now… you’re a guinea pig for experimental teleporting technology and suspect that something is wrong with this company. Very wrong...
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11 Years Ago
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
11 Years Ago is a puzzle-solving single player adventure game made with Unreal Engine 5 and it is the final project of the Red 32 team of BigRock School.
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Black Submarine: deep seek
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Faraday Protocol.
Descend as the AI mind of a cutting-edge submarine, tasked with safeguarding mysterious waters. A narrative-driven tale blending sci-fi, underwater mythology, and a chilling exploration of Artificial Intelligence’s moral evolution.
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Examination Chambers
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
In this short narrative puzzle adventure, you play as a tester who has to overcome increasingly harder logic puzzles. Room by room, your actions will be commented on by a test supervisor. Place different sizes of cubes on buttons in first person to solve logic-gate-like riddles.
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The Entropy Centre
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.
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Quantum Conundrum
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
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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The Turing Test
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.
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The Spectrum Retreat
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
Check-in to The Spectrum Retreat for a stay you won’t forget. Manipulate your way to the truth in this captivating narrative-driven puzzler.
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Relicta
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Lightmatter
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.
A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.
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Grim Horde
Single-player alternative to Faraday Protocol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Faraday Protocol.
Gather your minions, conquer the lands and become the Darklord! Grim Horde is a fast arcade game with rogue-lite elements, where you lead your armies through the lands of the mortals, raze villages and claim souls. Die and rise again from your ashes and learn new summoning spells.