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
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.
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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...
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!"
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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!
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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!
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 ......
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.