Single-player games like the machine that BREATHES
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to the machine that BREATHES, 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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Corpse Mansion
Single-player alternative to the machine that BREATHES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Infiltrate a city under total military lockdown as Detective Draven Vaughn. Search for your missing partner, scavenge for supplies, and customize your arsenal to survive the reanimating dead. In Helga City, every choice counts—and time is running out.
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The Lacerator
Single-player alternative to the machine that BREATHES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Lose a limb? You’ll adapt in THE LACERATOR! A titillating mix of survival horror and trashy 80’s film.
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Echoes of the Living
Single-player alternative to the machine that BREATHES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Echoes of the Living is a dark Classic Survival Horror inspired by the greatest hits from the 90's focused on reimagining visual horror, your goal is to make it out alive while uncovering the truth about the incident.
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Rain World
Single-player alternative to the machine that BREATHES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
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Dark Light
Single-player alternative to the machine that BREATHES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with the machine that BREATHES.
Dark Light is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk action-platformer with intense hack'n slash combat. Explore the unknown, enhance your abilities with cyberwares, and face off against supernatural entities to seal the Dark Void and end the eternal darkness.
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Trash Quest
Single-player alternative to the machine that BREATHES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming. Navigate an interwoven maze of rooms through this space station, destroying robots, collecting power ups and unlocking shortcuts.
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to the machine that BREATHES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Endoparasitic 2
Single-player alternative to the machine that BREATHES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must survive. Drag yourself through the hallways of an infested arcship, fight off twisted eldritch creatures, craft vaccines and ammunition, and escape to civilization.