Single-player games like CLeM
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to CLeM, 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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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
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Eclipsed Memories
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Every town is unique. Liddy's town has a lot of supernatural activity and it is her job to find and free entities stuck in our realm. Join her and her friends on their adventures, finding clues and ways to banish the creatures that shouldn't be here.
- 3

Echoes of Absence
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
A narrative psychological horror game where you'll explore different environments and fragments of your past. Solve puzzles and uncover a truth some would rather forget.
- 4

Trance, Trauma
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
A woman killed herself. Uncover her motive in 3 surreal, hexagon rooms. Set in the aftermath of a tragic incident, Trance, Trauma is a point-and-click puzzle game where you play as the soul of the victim.
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Captive: You Are My Idol
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CLeM.
Aylen is a horror let's player who gets kidnapped. One moment, she was shooting the intro for her next video, and the next, she was waking up her biggest fan's basement. There are only two means for escape: examine & plot in secrecy, or use your words to deceive him. Or willingly accept him. (Don't)
- 6

MimiCries
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CLeM.
Investigate the mysteries of a haunted mansion as you solve various challenging puzzles in this Victorian-inspired, narrative-driven escape room game. With only your wit and a lantern to light the way forward, will the choices you make seal your fate, or open the path to freedom?
- 7

SOMBRAS: negative frames
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CLeM.
‘SOMBRAS: negative frames’ is a first person narrative game with a focus on photography and light horror elements. Follow Shiomi, a Japanese-Spanish photography student, as she is spirited away in a dark mirror of her 2000s Japanese town and must confront fragments of her own psyche.
- 8

The Tartarus Key
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CLeM.
There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her every move. Whether she and her companions live or die, and find the truth behind their abduction, is up to you in this first-person mystery thriller.
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Strange Antiquities
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
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MechaNika
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
If it's not cool, it will disappear. If you're not cool, hide. MechaNika is here.
- 11

Blue Prince
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?
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Strange Horticulture
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
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Agatha Knife
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Embark on a whimsically twisted adventure with Agatha, a child torn between her love for eating meat and her friendships with animals. Join her as she discovers religion and creates her own, Carnivorism, to convince animals that the sacrifice of their flesh is the secret to their eternal happiness.
- 14

Colossus Down
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Join forces with Nika, MechaNika, Agatha and the Great Bleeding Pig in this peculiar and crazy mission of destruction of everything that isn't cool.
- 15

CLeM: The First Attribute
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
CLeM: The First Attribute is a free prologue that offers the first loop of CLeM, a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy.