Single-player games like Mesmer
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Mesmer, 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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I'm a King
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mesmer.
Role-playing strategy "I'm a King". Rule the kingdom, decide the fate of people, investigate, survive during periods of dark storms. This is only a small part of what you have to do.
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Chronicles: Medieval
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Mesmer.
Step into a vast, dynamic medieval sandbox set in the age of the Hundred Years' War. Explore a brutal but beautiful, historically grounded Europe, command armies in massive battles, leave a mark the chroniclers can't ignore as you make your name one fight at a time. What story will you write?
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Three Days
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Mesmer.
You are a lead scientist working for the SCP foundation on a super-secret project [SCP-2432]. Something goes terribly wrong and the ship you are on containing the SCP explodes, and you wake up on a distant island surrounded by a vivid environment. Get ready to survive, fight for your life and finally escape the horrors of the island.
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The Withering
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Mesmer.
Have you ever thought or imagined how our world would look like after an apocalyptic event? What would we do if some of us were to survive? What world would we live in and what challenges would we face? What would you do?
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Windbound
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mesmer.
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
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Overfall
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mesmer.
Set sail in Overfall, a whimsical roguelike turn-based RPG of diplomacy and danger. Recruit unlikely heroes, forge alliances or crush your foes across ever-shifting seas to find a lost king. Every run is fresh with procedural worlds, permanent death, branching story encounters, and hand-drawn art.
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Bleak Faith: Forsaken
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mesmer.
Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.
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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mesmer.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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Teslagrad
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mesmer.
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
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World to the West
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mesmer.
World to the West is a standalone followup of Teslagrad, the indie hit that sold more than 1.6 million copies worldwide. A vast world of blue skies and dark caves awaits you in this 3D action adventure, as you try to unveil the mysteries of an ancient prophecy.
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Pathologic 2
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mesmer.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mesmer.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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Teslagrad 2
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mesmer.
Lumina, a young Teslamancer, finds herself stranded after her airship crash lands in Wyrmheim, a remote and treacherous land to the North. Embark on a dangerous adventure, exploring a gigantic, abandoned tower looming over a fjordside valley, on a quest to get Lumina home and back to her family.
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Teslagrad Remastered
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mesmer.
Return to the indie classic Teslagrad, recharged to provide the ultimate electromagnetic experience! Escape a tyrant king, master the art of Teslamancy, and uncover the secrets buried deep within the Tesla Tower in this puzzle-platforming adventure!
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Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mesmer.
A fabulous Action Adventure game based on the wonderful graphic novel series, Girl Genius™, by authors Phil & Kaja Foglio.
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Knuckle Jet
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mesmer.
What's this? An off-the-wall, riveting jetpunk nose-breaking ricochet action platformer, lovingly crafted by the oddballs behind the Teslagrad series!