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Single-player games like Vesper: Zero Light Edition

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Vesper: Zero Light Edition, 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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    FlowerRock — Steam game cover

    FlowerRock

    Single-player alternative to Vesper: Zero Light Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Vesper: Zero Light Edition.

    FlowerRock is a 2D platformer for players who love intense boss fights and an mysterious story. Something happened to this world, powerful enemies and secrets litter the landscape. Unlock upgrades for your laser to blast stronger enemies and unravel the story of what happened to this forsaken world.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Talos Principle 2 — Steam game cover

    The Talos Principle 2

    Single-player alternative to Vesper: Zero Light Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Vesper: Zero Light Edition.

    The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.

    2023ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tears Fall Low — Steam game cover

    Tears Fall Low

    Single-player alternative to Vesper: Zero Light Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Vesper: Zero Light Edition.

    Unravel the mystery of a fallen tear on its journey back to the surface!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Catch the dustling — Steam game cover

    Catch the dustling

    Single-player alternative to Vesper: Zero Light Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Vesper: Zero Light Edition.

    Due to an experiment gone wrong, dust creatures from a parallel world have appeared in the laboratory. They pose a threat because of their bad temper and their habit of ignoring certain laws of physics

    2024ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hue — Steam game cover

    Hue

    Single-player alternative to Vesper: Zero Light Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vesper: Zero Light Edition.

    Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

    2016IndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Golf Club Nostalgia — Steam game cover

    Golf Club Nostalgia

    Single-player alternative to Vesper: Zero Light Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Vesper: Zero Light Edition.

    Human life is wiped out. Earth is now a golf course for the ultra-rich. In this dystopian sports puzzler, play through destroyed brutalist monuments, crumbling shopping malls, and abandoned museums as you piece together the full story of how humanity fell.

    2021SportsIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Augment Anthem — Steam game cover

    Augment Anthem

    Single-player alternative to Vesper: Zero Light Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Vesper: Zero Light Edition.

    Combine four Augment types to transform your gun, movement, and traversal in a 2D sci-fi metroidvania. Explore interconnected environments from flooded ruins to abandoned bunkers, fight biomechanical threats, and rebuild the last human settlement.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure17.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Get Up In The Night — Steam game cover

    Get Up In The Night

    Single-player alternative to Vesper: Zero Light Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Vesper: Zero Light Edition.

    Damn! The old man has been kidnapped by aliens, what to do? Finished! The aliens are conducting inhuman experiments on the old man, how to solve it? Click "Add to Cart" to complete the purchase and get the solution!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — Steam game cover

    Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®

    Single-player alternative to Vesper: Zero Light Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Vesper: Zero Light Edition.

    Selected by the fickle finger of fate, Abe™, floor-waxer first class for RuptureFarms, was catapulted into a life of adventure when he overheard plans by his boss, Molluck the Glukkon™, to turn Abe and his fellow Mudokons into Tasty Treats as part of a last-ditch effort to rescue Molluck's failing meat-packing empire.

    2008Adventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    LIMBO — Steam game cover

    LIMBO

    Single-player alternative to Vesper: Zero Light Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Vesper: Zero Light Edition.

    Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

    2011ActionIndieAdventure12.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    INSIDE — Steam game cover

    INSIDE

    Single-player alternative to Vesper: Zero Light Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Vesper: Zero Light Edition.

    Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →