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Single-player games like Lucid Dream Simulator

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Lucid Dream Simulator, 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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    MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition — Steam game cover

    MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition

    Single-player alternative to Lucid Dream Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lucid Dream Simulator.

    MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!

    2014StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hyperbolica — Steam game cover

    Hyperbolica

    Single-player alternative to Lucid Dream Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Dream Simulator.

    Hyperbolica is a whimsical Non-Euclidean adventure with mind-bending worlds full of games, puzzles, mazes, and secrets! Immerse yourself in reality-warping geometries where lines can never be parallel, horizons are curved, and space grows exponentially.

    2022IndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dark Trip — Steam game cover

    Dark Trip

    Single-player alternative to Lucid Dream Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Dream Simulator.

    Dark Trip is a gothic horror escape room where you use wicked biomachinery, strange art and your own hallucinations to solve the mystery of an eerie crime. Explore strange rooms, inspect occult locations and laboratory machines, reveal hidden clues through altered visions. Play flat or in VR.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Obduction — Steam game cover

    Obduction

    Single-player alternative to Lucid Dream Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Dream Simulator.

    A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.

    2016IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    A Fisherman's Tale — Steam game cover

    A Fisherman's Tale

    Single-player alternative to Lucid Dream Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Dream Simulator.

    Bend and twist reality in A Fisherman's Tale, the mind-bending VR puzzle adventure game in which being turned upside down and inside out is not merely a play on words.

    2019IndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Antichamber — Steam game cover

    Antichamber

    Single-player alternative to Lucid Dream Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Dream Simulator.

    Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.

    2013IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Transpose — Steam game cover

    Transpose

    Single-player alternative to Lucid Dream Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Lucid Dream Simulator.

    Transpose is a dreamlike and gravity-defying time manipulation puzzle game in VR. It challenges players to solve increasingly complex physics puzzles as they explore an extraordinarily surreal world.

    2018ActionCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    I'm on Observation Duty 3 — Steam game cover

    I'm on Observation Duty 3

    Single-player alternative to Lucid Dream Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Dream Simulator.

    A thrilling psychological horror game. Your job is to look for anomalies in a haunted house. If you see anyhting suspicious (furniture moving, extra objects, intruders), take a photo and send a report. Includes both VR- (windows only) and non-VR (windows, mac, linux)-versions.

    2020IndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Zomcade — Steam game cover

    Zomcade

    Single-player alternative to Lucid Dream Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Lucid Dream Simulator.

    Zomcade is a challenging action-horror arcade style game for Steam VR. Immerse yourself in over 15 different ways to play.

    2020ActionIndieFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →