Single-player games like Cloud Climber
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Cloud Climber, 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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The Berlin Apartment
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cloud Climber.
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
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Once Alive
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cloud Climber.
A story-driven, first-person adventure game offering a cinematic experience. Embark on a journey to HaustVille, an abandoned settlement in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore your surroundings and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of the last survivors.
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Empathy: Path of Whispers
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cloud Climber.
Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.
- 4
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cloud Climber.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
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despelote
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cloud Climber.
A slice-of-life adventure about childhood and the magical grip soccer held over the people of Quito, Ecuador in 2001.
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Ambrosia Sky: Act One
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cloud Climber.
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination. Survive and harvest strains of hostile alien fungi, explore treacherous environments, and find meaning and beauty in so much death—the first of two acts.
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Eidolon
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cloud Climber.
Narrative exploration game located in a massive, post-human Western Washington. Navigate an open world that has been reclaimed by nature. Use journals, letters, zines, and other documents to learn the interconnected stories of the people who lived here once.
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LOST EMBER
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cloud Climber.
Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.
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Choo-Choo Charles
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cloud Climber.
Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.
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CUFFBUST
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cloud Climber.
Escape prison with your friends by equipping tools, evading guards, and executing your breakout plan. Destructible environments, proximity chat, a multitude of escape routes, 10 player lobbies, and a full custom map editor!
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My Beautiful Paper Smile
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cloud Climber.
Welcome, child, to your new home. Here you shall learn the art of perfection. Here you shall learn to smile. Be sure that smile doesn’t fade into sadness, or you will need to run and hide…
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My Friend is a Raven
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cloud Climber.
You return to your old apartment one last time, in search of a sickened raven. You must speak to him, and discover the cause behind the calamity that has spread across the world.
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Night in Riverager
Single-player alternative to Cloud Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cloud Climber.
A Night In Riverager is a free horror short set in the monochrome world of My Beautiful Paper Smile. It tells the tale of a strange hunter in an even stranger land, on a quest to find medicine for his ailing mother. Strange and powerful forces are stirring. Can he resist them?