Single-player games like Ctrl Alt Ego
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Ctrl Alt Ego, 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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Soft(A)ware
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ctrl Alt Ego.
A surreal puzzle-platformer where you bend gravity, rewind time, and disrupt a virtual prison built to contain you.
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OBVERSE
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ctrl Alt Ego.
OBVERSE is an immersive first-person sci-fi mystery focused on exploration and problem-solving set in a secret underground research facility. Find creative solutions to every obstacle, outsmart hostile machines, and uncover the truth behind a failed experiment threatening to collapse reality itself.
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Radiotext
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Ctrl Alt Ego.
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
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Hackshot
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ctrl Alt Ego.
The most deviously STYLISH Strategy game ever ... Shoot to Hack; ... Optimize and Combo to rise; ... as a HACKER
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Éclaircies
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ctrl Alt Ego.
Lost in a bewildering forest, discover a new way to run and walk through a vast and intricate environment. Create new trails, map the forest, leave your mark and use the stars to chart your way out as you make the most of your journey.
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Lonely Space
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ctrl Alt Ego.
Lonely Space is a sci-fi immersive sim inspired by System Shock 2, Dead Space and Prey. You find yourself awakened from hibernation in the docking bay of the Cassiopeia Space Station. The rest of the crew vanished a long time ago. You need to find them and unravel the secrets of Cassiopeia Station.
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Skin Deep
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ctrl Alt Ego.
Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this stellar sandbox. You're outnumbered, outgunned, and have no shoes. Welcome to Skin Deep!
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Neverlooted Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ctrl Alt Ego.
Venture deep into the Neverlooted Dungeon in search of its legendary treasure, and face its treacherous, deadly traps. Using your creativity and magical items in a highly interactive physics-based world, find your own ways to outsmart the dangers, and be the first to uncover its darkest secrets.
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Thief
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ctrl Alt Ego.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ctrl Alt Ego.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ctrl Alt Ego.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ctrl Alt Ego.
Developed by Kojima Productions and PlatinumGames, METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE takes the renowned METAL GEAR franchise into exciting new territory with an all-new action experience. The game seamlessly melds pure action and epic story-telling that surrounds Raiden – a child soldier transformed into a half-human, half-cyborg ninja who...
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Super Meat Boy Forever
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ctrl Alt Ego.
Super Meat Boy is back! This time around Meat Boy is always running, literally it's an auto-runner. You will jump, dive, slide and punch your way through brutal levels and mean boss fights. We designed 5,000+ levels so you can play the game over and over without seeing the same level twice.
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VANQUISH
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ctrl Alt Ego.
This is Vanquish! A top-down pixel art shooter where you play as either an Orc Warrior or a Gnome Magician which have both crashed onto a cursed island.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Ctrl Alt Ego — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ctrl Alt Ego.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.