Single-player games like Submachine: Legacy
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Submachine: Legacy, 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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Slice of Sea
Single-player alternative to Submachine: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Slice of Sea is a peaceful adventure and puzzle game. You play as Seaweed, a sea creature clearly out of their element. Explore desolate world of dust, all hand-drawn on paper in unique art style. Collect items, solve puzzles and lead Seaweed back home to the sea.
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Monolith
Single-player alternative to Submachine: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.
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Daymare Town
Single-player alternative to Submachine: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Daymare Town is a hand-drawn puzzle adventure game. You find yourself in a heart of a strange city populated by peculiar Metamorph creatures. This town is full of nooks and crannies, puzzles, secrets and items to collect to help you along the way. Can you escape the nightmare of a day?
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Machinika: Museum
Single-player alternative to Submachine: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?
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Machinarium
Single-player alternative to Submachine: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
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The Roottrees are Dead
Single-player alternative to Submachine: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to Submachine: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
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Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service
Single-player alternative to Submachine: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.