Single-player games like Athanasy
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Athanasy, 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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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Athanasy.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Tokyo Dark
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
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Gamedec - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Athanasy.
Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.
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Who's Lila?
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Athanasy.
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
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Observer: System Redux
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Athanasy.
A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Athanasy.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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SIMULACRA 2
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Athanasy.
A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Athanasy.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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The Song of Saya
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Bear witness to a love that will change the world, in this classic horror romance visual novel from acclaimed writer Urobuchi Gen.
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Scorn
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Athanasy.
Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.
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Exit: A Biodelic Adventure
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Athanasy.
In the world of excessive biotechnologies, an epidemic is ravaging the human race, infecting people's neuronet implants and enslaving them to the mysterious Worm. Who are you: a fighter of the infection, or a hunter of new prey?
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Ceiba
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Athanasy.
Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl. Unfortunately, he is not the only one trying to make contact as from the abandoned and desolate alien ruins, the girl receives a message in human language.
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DDD: Demons Double Down
Single-player alternative to Athanasy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Athanasy.
Sometimes loneliness pushes us into strange, risky choices. A nightclub that wasn’t here yesterday. Mysterious strangers—each leaving more questions than answers. Just one short night that simply won’t end. What could possibly go wrong?