Single-player games like Mesmer
Below are 15 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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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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GreedFall
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mesmer.
Engage in a core roleplaying experience, and forge the destiny of a new world seeping with magic, and filled with riches, lost secrets, and fantastic creatures. With diplomacy, deception and force, become part of a living, evolving world - influence its course and shape your story.
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Suzerain
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mesmer.
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
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Three Kingdoms Mushouden
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mesmer.
Set on the eve of the Yellow Turban Rebellion (AD 182), you can play as an original character or a historical warlord, building forces and forging alliances. Whether you choose to be a lone wanderer or rally famous generals, use your knowledge and wisdom to reshape history!
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Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Mesmer.
Discover a brand new RPG from the creators of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Facing an imminent invasion, Meve — war-veteran and Queen of Lyria and Rivia — is forced to once again enter the warpath and set out on a dark journey of destruction and revenge.
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ELEX
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mesmer.
ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.
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Risen
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mesmer.
Delve into a gritty, raw and atmospheric fantasy world in which every action has a consequence. In the epic world of Risen, filled with mysterious earthquakes, fearsome monsters and unimaginable treasures, forge your path with the sword, learn the art of staff fighting or become a powerful mage.
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to Mesmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mesmer.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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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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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!