Single-player games like Aberration Analyst
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Aberration Analyst, 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 Darkside Detective
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Aberration Analyst.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
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The Blackwell Legacy
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Aberration Analyst.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
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Beat Cop
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aberration Analyst.
A retro, pixel art style adventure in New York, inspired by ’80s cop shows. You are Jack Kelly and you’ve been framed for murder. Now as a regular beat cop you have to find out, who did that. Expect thick crime story, a lot of black humour and all the other things you can find on the streets of Brooklyn.
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Unheard - Voices of Crime
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aberration Analyst.
What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Aberration Analyst.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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The Last Door - Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Aberration Analyst.
Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England. Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark.
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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Aberration Analyst.
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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Malware
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aberration Analyst.
Malware lurks where you least expect it. Unscrupulous software vendors have hidden traps inside legitimate installers — can you spot them all and keep your computer clean?
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Islands of the Caliph
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Aberration Analyst.
Islands of the Caliph is an old-school inspired action RPG based on Middle Eastern folklore and Islamic spiritual tradition. A KEYBOARD ONLY 1980s style Dungeon Crawler with an open world.
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Star Explorers
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aberration Analyst.
Planets, aliens, resources, upgrades, caves, mapping & documenting star systems ... seek a new home for the human race. An all-inclusive (admittedly janky) procedural space-sim made by solo developer Schmidt Workshops.
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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Aberration Analyst.
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
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Anomalies
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aberration Analyst.
Are you looking for something completely different? An oddity? An enigma? Or perhaps .. an Anomaly? Anomalies may be a game, then again it may not. One user described it as "A million musical leeches, waiting to suck the serotonin from my brain." And that's just the beginning...
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Rocket Blasters
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Aberration Analyst.
Rocket Blasters is a fast paced, action packed shoot-em-up set during the invasion of the Dread Pizza Armada. Its hand-drawn art gives it a unique style. Blowing stuff up has never been so fun!
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Paradox Vector
Single-player alternative to Aberration Analyst — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Aberration Analyst.
Explore impossible mazes while battling the Ancient Ones and their bio-mechanical servitors in this retro first-person, Lovecraft inspired shooter. Paradox Vector's graphics are inspired by the old-school vector graphics games of the early 1980's.