Single-player games like CRYPTIC
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to CRYPTIC, 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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Parasensor
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
When Marisol starts a new life as a telecom technician, she finds herself out of her depth in a mutating city. Connect with strangers, confront grotesque creatures, and unravel a conspiracy at the heart of the metamorphosis.
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STAMPED
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.
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Condition Unknown
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
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Room 337
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
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Seeds of Pain
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A group of kids decide to leave the floating island they live on to go and explore a colossal world tree. They don't know yet how dangerous this choice will be. Feel their fear and try to survive in this Visual Novel with resource management systems.
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Nothing To Remember
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop. Through their personal messages, you'll uncover two characters unknowingly intertwined as they hunt a killer long thought dead. When your next choice could mean life or death, will you answer the call?
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Sterile Childhood: Case 17
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
The hospital once wrote you into a case file. Now you must recover the life it erased.
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Haunting of the Evil Spirit - Horror Choose your own adventure Novel
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Cursed Choices and ConsequencesHorror Visual Novel Set in a haunted house, with multiple puzzles, paths, and endings.And great atmospheric music.Choices are forgiving and let you go back without replaying big chunks of the game.Reads like a book.Approximately 3 hours of content.
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Hiking Simulator 2017
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Experience nature like you have never seen it before as you take your hiking to the next level!
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Parking Cop Simulator
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Take on the role of a Parking Enforcement Officer and show your knowledge of parking regulations and laws as you hand out fines to parking violators!
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Creatio Ex Nihilo: Aition
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Battle against gods and experience the creation myth of a grand fantasy universe!
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Reading Simulator
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Read all the literary classics in this simulated library experience!
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Hiking Simulator 2018
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Put on your hiking boots and get ready to explore a gigantic winter landscape!
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Phantast
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Help Phantast save his tribe in this atmospheric and quirky top-down shooter!
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Hamster Logic 3D
Single-player alternative to CRYPTIC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Think hard and use your hamster logic to solve the geometric puzzles in this fun and fluffy game!