Single-player games like Viewfinder
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Viewfinder, 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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Superliminal
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Viewfinder.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
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OFFICESCAPE
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viewfinder.
OFFICESCAPE is a first-person puzzle-platformer adventure game. In OFFICESCAPE you play as yourself, you are stuck in a dream and you are trying to wake up.
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Alien Video Game Scientist
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Viewfinder.
A 3D platformer collectathon featuring puzzles, mazes, and a bit of speedrunning in a retro-minimalist package evocative of the PS2 era. Can YOU figure out how to grab all the things, and do it efficiently? Or, go at your own pace, and deeply disappoint the unseen snarky narrator.
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Leap of Phase: Samantha
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viewfinder.
You thought it would be the chance of a lifetime when tech giant IRT hired you to work in their new testing facility. But now… you’re a guinea pig for experimental teleporting technology and suspect that something is wrong with this company. Very wrong...
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Summertime Madness
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viewfinder.
Prague, July 1945. An artist has made a deal with the devil and he is now trapped inside one of his canvases. He has to find the way back to the real world or his soul will be stuck forever in the painting.
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Andarin Weppes
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viewfinder.
Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...
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A Fisherman's Tale
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viewfinder.
Bend and twist reality in A Fisherman's Tale, the mind-bending VR puzzle adventure game in which being turned upside down and inside out is not merely a play on words.
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Manifold Garden
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viewfinder.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viewfinder.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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The Witness
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viewfinder.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viewfinder.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viewfinder.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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Gorogoa
Single-player alternative to Viewfinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viewfinder.
Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.