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Single-player games like One Way: The Elevator

Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to One Way: The Elevator, 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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    ISOLAND: The Amusement Park — Steam game cover

    ISOLAND: The Amusement Park

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with One Way: The Elevator.

    ISOLAND: The Amusement Park is the latest installment of Isoland series from CottonGame, featuring the classic and unique art style, and intriguing puzzles. As always, Isoland: The Amusement Park has a second-run mode, which presents puzzles and paths different from the first play-through.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    What's done is Done — Steam game cover

    What's done is Done

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with One Way: The Elevator.

    A narrative-driven puzzle game about souls and forgetting. On the brink of reincarnation, she loses all her memories, and her soul is scattered. The memories of lingering spirits on the bridge seem to be connected to her story...

    2024IndieSimulationRPG1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective — Steam game cover

    Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with One Way: The Elevator.

    Adapted from the bestselling children’s book series Pierre The Maze Detective, play as Pierre in this adventure/puzzle game and recover the stolen Maze Stone. Journey through breathtakingly hand-drawn illustrations, meet eccentric characters, and solve puzzles to save Opera City!

    2021IndieAdventureCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Little Adventurer Treasure Hunt — Steam game cover

    Little Adventurer Treasure Hunt

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with One Way: The Elevator.

    "Little Adventurer Treasure Hunt" is a game focused on object-finding. The main storyline revolves around helping alien friends who have been forced to land on Earth due to an "accident", assisting them in searching for scattered items, parts, and their lost crew members across various locations.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dual Discovery: Unite Challenge 寻踪觅影:合二为一 — Steam game cover

    Dual Discovery: Unite Challenge 寻踪觅影:合二为一

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with One Way: The Elevator.

    Unlike traditional hidden object games, "Dual Discovery: Unite Challenge" offers you an entirely new treasure-hunting experience! Each mission item is cleverly split into two parts, scattered throughout the picture.

    2025IndieCasual3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Find Cats2 吃货猫奇遇 — Steam game cover

    Find Cats2 吃货猫奇遇

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with One Way: The Elevator.

    "This is a cute game for finding foodie kittens!" A few maps and a chance to find the furry creatures that are cleverly hiding!"

    2024IndieCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pasha Planet: Reborn — Steam game cover

    Pasha Planet: Reborn

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with One Way: The Elevator.

    “Pasha Planet: Reborn” is the debut game of Scorpio Game, a Taiwanese indie game development studio. Players will take on the role of Bobbie and clear stages of challenges to solve the final mystery!

    2023IndieAdventureCasual13.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kosmo Laika: Space and Beyond — Steam game cover

    Kosmo Laika: Space and Beyond

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with One Way: The Elevator.

    Kosmo Laika: Space and Beyond helps you collect stamps of space exploration and beyond. Learn even more about the most important characters in astronomy, finding the perfect combination of exclusive patches. Earn stickers from interplanetary missions in this mix of puzzle, word game, and trivia!

    2021Casual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Isoland — Steam game cover

    Isoland

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with One Way: The Elevator.

    The objective of the game is to explore a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, and uncover its secrets

    2018IndieAdventure0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mr. Pumpkin 2: Kowloon walled city — Steam game cover

    Mr. Pumpkin 2: Kowloon walled city

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with One Way: The Elevator.

    Mr. Pumpkin 2: Kowloon Walled City is a sequel to the Mr. Pumpkin franchise. Our protagonist, an insignificant guy with a pumpkin head, will explore the Kowloon Walled City of Hong Kong, and witness the stories happening within these walls.

    2019IndieCasual5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    PumpKin Majo — Steam game cover

    PumpKin Majo

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with One Way: The Elevator.

    Our pumpkin witch tries to avoid hitting the evil pumpkins and stay away from other enemies while collecting green orbs and trying to reach the highest score on halloween. So it takes a lot of effort to make the highest score on halloween.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sunset Hills — Steam game cover

    Sunset Hills

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with One Way: The Elevator.

    After being discharged from the army and starting to write novels, Nico embarks on a trip to the world with the roar of a train, encountering all kinds of people and events on the way, and experiencing the new world after the war, and the real purpose of Nico's trip gradually emerges ......

    2024IndieAdventureRPG17.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Little Triangle — Steam game cover

    Little Triangle

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with One Way: The Elevator.

    Little Triangle has the most complete platformer experience among many others. All three game modes including single player mode, local co-op mode and local mini Battle Royale mode are all well polished and hilarious!

    2017ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mr. Pumpkin Adventure — Steam game cover

    Mr. Pumpkin Adventure

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with One Way: The Elevator.

    Mr. Pumpkin's Adventure is a point-and-click puzzle game. The main character of this game is Mr. Pumpkin who lost his memories. During the adventure, you will help him solve all the puzzles, which will eventually unveil an evil plot.

    2016IndieAdventure3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dad's Monster House — Steam game cover

    Dad's Monster House

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with One Way: The Elevator.

    Dad's Monster House is a hand-drawn puzzle game featuring horror and fantasy. It tells the story of Carlos' journey after he receives a distress call from his father, pleading for him to return to his old home and rescue his dad.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Isoland 2 - Ashes of Time — Steam game cover

    Isoland 2 - Ashes of Time

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with One Way: The Elevator.

    Isoland 2: Ashes of Time is a puzzle game with a fascinating non-linear story, charming 2D hand-drawn art, numerous challenging puzzles, and unique twists. Besides numerous sci-fi references and easter-eggs hidden throughout the game, you’ll find things aren’t quite the same second time you play through the story.

    2018IndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tales of the Mirror — Steam game cover

    Tales of the Mirror

    Single-player alternative to One Way: The Elevator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with One Way: The Elevator.

    Tales of the Mirror is a landscape-mode visual novel game created by Cotton Games. As a player, you solve a series of mysteries in the mid and late Ming Dynasty, in the south of Yangtze River.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →