Single-player games like Otherside
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Otherside, 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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GlitchPets
Single-player alternative to Otherside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Otherside.
This game is still in development: kind of a puzzle-platform-climb-story-adventure where your cartridge 'pets' glitches out from pet pee. You control a "debug" npc
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Synthesis Universe -Episode 00-
Single-player alternative to Otherside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Otherside.
Welcome to Synthesis Universe, the host of a musical civilization, their technology is music. -Story- mixes harmonics and aesthetics Every notes, every beat is alive and surrounds you.
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★Fallalypse ★ Disconnect ❄
Single-player alternative to Otherside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Otherside.
Async Multiplayer. An apocalypse hit Earth when the artificial intelligence rebelled and turned people into zombies with help of a virus. Then came the war of the Space Forces of Earth against machines and zombies. The war ended with the victory of the Space Forces.
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Umurangi Generation
Single-player alternative to Otherside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Otherside.
Umurangi Generation is a first person photography game in the shitty future. Set in Tauranga Aotearoa off the back of an impending crisis you are a courier for the Tauranga Express. Throughout the game you will unlock a variety of lenses and equipment.
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Californium
Single-player alternative to Otherside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Otherside.
Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick by transporting you into the life of a writer searching for his own identity. Explore, solve the riddles and conduct your investigation. Will you find what’s behind the simulacra ?
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CLOSER - anagnorisis
Single-player alternative to Otherside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Otherside.
CLOSER - anagnorisis is a game with distinctive art and gameplay. It contains a lot of creative designs. Here you will feel the spiritual experience.
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Intraquartz
Single-player alternative to Otherside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Otherside.
INTRAQUARTZ is a multidimensional experimental maze puzzler where you control a microscopic mining rover inside extraterrestrial crystals.
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Ghosts from the House of Flesh
Single-player alternative to Otherside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Otherside.
Ghosts from the House of Flesh is a horror puzzle game made in 2D pixel art. In the game, you have to collect hidden totems in the forest with ghosts of all kinds.
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There Was the Moon
Single-player alternative to Otherside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Otherside.
Atmospheric walking sim set in an eerie sci fi world with some puzzles. The moon hasn't set in ages. Under the eternal night humanity is forced to choose one of its own to restore natural order. Step into this beautiful nightmare, walk its luminous halls, and take part in the ceremony of a lifetime.