Single-player games like Cataplexy
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Cataplexy, 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 Remission of Sins
Single-player alternative to Cataplexy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cataplexy.
The Remission of Sins is a fully-voiced, multi-ending short horror visual novel. Depending on the player’s choice, it branches to 12 different endings.
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Bobok
Single-player alternative to Cataplexy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cataplexy.
Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".
- 3
MEAT-GRINDER
Single-player alternative to Cataplexy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cataplexy.
Have a human MEATGRINDER with Obi the freelance hitman! Fulfill contracts all over the planet, open a beer, turn off your brain: it's time to kill and solve the financial problems of Obi and her peculiar family!
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SHUT IN
Single-player alternative to Cataplexy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cataplexy.
SHUT IN is a dark comedy/psychological horror adventure game which explores depression and isolation by trapping you inside your own house. Explore a hostile home, solve puzzles, and withstand sarcasm from a rude and unreliable narrator. Idiot.
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Bed Lying Simulator 2020
Single-player alternative to Cataplexy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Simulator of lying on a bed. Or lying to a bed. Or maybe the bed is lying. Is your bed lying to you?
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Robotherapy
Single-player alternative to Cataplexy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cataplexy.
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
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Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!
Single-player alternative to Cataplexy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cataplexy.
Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.
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THE CORRIDOR
Single-player alternative to Cataplexy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cataplexy.
THE CORRIDOR is a 20-30 minute experience about the relationship between player and game.