Single-player games like Deception
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Deception, 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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OFFICESCAPE
Single-player alternative to Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deception.
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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Viewfinder
Single-player alternative to Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deception.
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Deception.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Supraland
Single-player alternative to Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deception.
Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.
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Vesper: Zero Light Edition
Single-player alternative to Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deception.
Thousands of years after the activation of the Vesper Protocol, a small android crosses a fallen world, hunted by merciless machines, to control the power of Light and decide the fate of his race.
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The Crow's Eye
Single-player alternative to Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deception.
In an abandoned medical university, test your intellectual might as you unravel a 20-year-old mystery in this depraved first-person puzzle adventure, doing what it takes to escape your fate as a macabre scientist's human experiment. The ends justify the means in The Crow’s Eye.
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Relicta
Single-player alternative to Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deception.
Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.
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Superliminal
Single-player alternative to Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Deception.
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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Ink
Single-player alternative to Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Deception.
Ink. is a semi-procedural/random RPG action shooter. You'll play in a blank book, trying to write your story as a small ink creature but with great powers. Start your adventure, fight bosses, find items and discover new incredible synergies and combos.