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Single-player games like The Complex

Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to The Complex, 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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    Late Shift — Steam game cover

    Late Shift

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. Forced into a brutal London heist, your choices matter in this interactive cinematic experience with adaptable storylines that lead to one of seven conclusions. Your decisions are you.

    2017IndieAdventure3.59 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    She Sees Red - Interactive Movie — Steam game cover

    She Sees Red - Interactive Movie

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    She Sees Red is a mature, hard-boiled interactive thriller. When someone is killed inside a nightclub, an experienced detective vows to put the murderer behind bars. Make choices that affect the narrative and experience several different endings in this blood-red interactive movie.

    2019IndieAdventure7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Bunker — Steam game cover

    The Bunker

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    The Bunker is an award-winning interactive psychological horror movie. You are John, born underground the day the bombs fell, now alone and trying to survive. But when an alarm goes off, a catastrophic chain of events begins. Unlock the dark secrets of your past as you try to escape The Bunker.

    2016IndieAdventure2.24 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Night Book — Steam game cover

    Night Book

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.

    2021Adventure2.54 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Five Dates — Steam game cover

    Five Dates

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    Five Dates is an interactive rom-com about the unpredictable world of digital dating. With five potential female matches, Vinny explores whether compatibility, chemistry and connection is still possible in a world where physical touch is no longer an option.

    2020Adventure4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hacked: The Streamer — Steam game cover

    Hacked: The Streamer

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    You are blackmailed in Hacked: The Streamer. Investigate clues, make impactful decisions, and shape your story to uncover the culprit is in this thrilling interactive movie. The fate of PinkyPie, a fan-favorite streamer, is in your hands.

    2026IndieAdventure8.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Systematic Insanity — Steam game cover

    Systematic Insanity

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    Nami - a perfect student - accepts a "special award" on her Graduation Day - but suddenly finds herself facing the horrors of a one-day nightmare.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Shapeshifting Detective — Steam game cover

    The Shapeshifting Detective

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    The Shapeshifting Detective is a supernatural murder mystery FMV game where you play as a detective who can shapeshift into other characters, allowing you to unlock secret conversations and private encounters.

    2018IndieAdventure2.54 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Coral Island — Steam game cover

    Coral Island

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Far Cry® 5 — Steam game cover

    Far Cry® 5

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    Discover the open world of Hope County, Montana, besieged by a fanatical doomsday cult. Dive into the action solo or two-player co-op in the story campaign, use a vast arsenal of weapons and allies, and free Hope County from Joseph Seed and his cult.

    2018ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake — Steam game cover

    METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The first and second title in the METAL GEAR series that established the stealth action genre, as well as the basic mechanics of the series.

    2023Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Caves of Qud — Steam game cover

    Caves of Qud

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    UnReal World — Steam game cover

    UnReal World

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation14.50 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Capitalism 2 — Steam game cover

    Capitalism 2

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Create and control the business empire of your dreams. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation7.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    From the Depths — Steam game cover

    From the Depths

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tales of Maj'Eyal — Steam game cover

    Tales of Maj'Eyal

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.

    2013IndieAdventureRPG6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sker Ritual — Steam game cover

    Sker Ritual

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    An intense round-based zombie survival FPS, play solo or co-op. Shoot your way through relentless waves of vicious horrors with high-octane objectives, upgrading steampunk weapons, collecting Celtic God powers, and surviving the onslaught of the Quiet Ones.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure8.74 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Maid of Sker — Steam game cover

    Maid of Sker

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure4.74 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bloodshore — Steam game cover

    Bloodshore

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    Bloodshore is an interactive action movie about a televised battle royale between high-profile streamers, entertainers and death row inmates. You control the fate of Nick, a washed-up actor who fights for a life-changing cash prize.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure1.94 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dead Reset — Steam game cover

    Dead Reset

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    Trapped in a terrifying death-loop, surgeon Cole Mason is kidnapped and brought to an underwater facility, forced to operate on a patient to extract an evolving parasitic horror. Dead Reset is a blood-soaked interactive horror, where each death brings you closer to the truth.

    2025Adventure10.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? — Steam game cover

    Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?

    Single-player alternative to The Complex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex.

    An eccentric FMV murder mystery with a twist: someone has poisoned Uncle Marcus. Uncover the truth in the yearly family quiz and try to save him before it is too late.

    2022Adventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →