Single-player games like CLeM
Below are 12 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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Enigma of Fear
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
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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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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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Slender Threads
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
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Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CLeM.
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
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Cabernet
Single-player alternative to CLeM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.