Single-player games like The Indigo Parallel
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Indigo Parallel, 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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C.A.G.E.
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Indigo Parallel.
C.A.G.E. is a satirical first-person narrative adventure where your choices influence the story. Guided by an entity with questionable morals, you must navigate through corporate gaslighting and environmental oddities to complete your tasks. Your empathy is a glitch, compliance is your currency.
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Mine of my Mind
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Indigo Parallel.
This is a horror where you play as a miner experiencing a midlife crisis. The final shift before a long-awaited promotion goes wrong: reality begins to warp, turning a workday into a nightmare. Will he be able to escape the depths of his own mind?
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The Milgram Experiment
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Indigo Parallel.
A psychological thriller inspired by a disturbing real-life experiment. Handcrafted unsettling ethical dilemmas that will make you question your own morality and test your sanity. Every choice you make brings you closer to a unique ending. Will you sacrifice your own beliefs to obey HIS authority?
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Project Looking Glass
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Indigo Parallel.
1963. A classified experiment. A grieving mother with unnatural powers. Step into a first-person psychological horror told through the static of a Cold War-era monitor peering into the astral realm and beyond. Find out what happened to you and uncover the conspiracy they tried to bury.
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DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Indigo Parallel.
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN is the sequel to the DEVIL'S WAY series, set in a sinister dystopia. It's back with various mini-games and longer playtime.
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Soul of Savarog
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Indigo Parallel.
Soul of Savarog includes four of Twisted Universe's mobile horror thriller games. All of these plays tell the story of Savarog. Play Savarog, Savarog 2, Rule and Savarog 3 respectively.
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War Fantasy
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Indigo Parallel.
The Stanley Parable with a loaded rifle. A psychological horror FPS where a demented commanding officer controls your every move, and the line between war simulation and real war dissolves into impossible, stunning spaces. You are not a soldier. You are being made into one.
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KARJALA
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Indigo Parallel.
A hot-tempered private of the Soviet army is sent through a portal to the Backrooms behind a fight with an officer, he needs to find a missing scientists. Monsters are hunting him, and the offended commander is trying to trap him. Will the soldier be able to survive and return?
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Indigo Parallel.
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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NaissanceE
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Indigo Parallel.
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.
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Yume Nikki
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Indigo Parallel.
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
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LSD: Dream Emulator Retro
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Indigo Parallel.
Immerse yourself in a dreamy and psychedelic platforms world through low poly enviroments and liminal spaces. A Retro game influenced by the original LSD: Dream Emulator from PSX.
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Alpha Locus VR
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Indigo Parallel.
Alpha Locus VR is a horror wave based shooter for the HTC Vive (PC). You can fight through various waves using both melee weapons and guns. As an immersive shooter, this game is scary and fun. This game is in the Alpha stage of production.
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Absolute Insanity
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Indigo Parallel.
Kill strange creatures with crazy weapons. The more you kill the more unlocks you gain, don't let them get close to you.
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Zombie Liminal Fishing
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Indigo Parallel.
Eliminate zombies in eerie liminal spaces. Gather zombie meat as bait for fish and sell your catch. Use the cash to upgrade weapons, unlock transportation devices, and access new zones. Repeat.
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Vapor Strange
Single-player alternative to The Indigo Parallel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Indigo Parallel.
Explore bizarre procedural generated psychedelic worlds, encounter surreal creatures, experience shifting rulesets, retro aesthetics, and altered music for a wild and truly strange experience.