Single-player games like The Artful Escape
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Artful Escape, 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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Starstruck: Hands of Time
Single-player alternative to The Artful Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Artful Escape.
Starstruck: Hands of Time is a story-rich rhythm adventure game where you play guitar and abuse time travel! Control a giant hand destroying a miniature town, or play as the two guitarist kids living in it. For extra fun, optionally plug in a Guitar Hero controller!
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Blue Wednesday
Single-player alternative to The Artful Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Artful Escape.
Blue Wednesday is a relaxing and lovely adventure game focused on story, music, and characters. Explore the city, meet various characters, and have conversations. Listen to their stories, play mini-games, collect music albums, and play music.
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Desert Angels
Single-player alternative to The Artful Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Artful Escape.
Your village is dying. Your only hope of saving it is buried in the desert scrapyard, hidden behind mountains of trash // memories. Will you uncover those memories? Or will you blast them to pieces?
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Goodbye Page
Single-player alternative to The Artful Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Artful Escape.
Goodbye Page is a third-person walking simulator where you play as Page, exploring the mysterious environment of her dad's house. With surreal settings and strange oddities throughout, can she uncover what is really happening in the house?
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Cinderline
Single-player alternative to The Artful Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Artful Escape.
Drive the Cinderline as an anthropomorphic bird, exploring strange towns in an aging system. Gather ingredients to create the last S’MORE and deliver its delight to the Heart that keeps the system alive.
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SLUDGE LIFE
Single-player alternative to The Artful Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Artful Escape.
SLUDGE LIFE is a first-person / open-world / vandalism-centric stroll through a polluted island full of cranky idiots and a vibe so thick you can taste it.
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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to The Artful Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Artful Escape.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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THRASHER
Single-player alternative to The Artful Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Artful Escape.
THRASHER is an award-winning arcade odyssey and audiovisual experience. Guide a magnificent space eel, swooping and thrashing it through mesmerizing alien worlds in the ultimate race for survival. Dive into the circle-based combo system, and play any way you like on PC, VR and Steam Deck.
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Monument Valley
Single-player alternative to The Artful Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Artful Escape.
Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.
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Mixtape
Single-player alternative to The Artful Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Artful Escape.
On their last night together, three friends embark on one final adventure. Play through a mixtape of memories, set to the soundtrack of a generation.