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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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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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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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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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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Quantum Conundrum
Single-player alternative to Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Deception — 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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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.