Single-player games like Project Cartaphilus
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Project Cartaphilus, 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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Monolith
Single-player alternative to Project Cartaphilus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Cartaphilus.
A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.
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Rumu
Single-player alternative to Project Cartaphilus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Cartaphilus.
Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure that follows the path into sentience of a robot vacuum cleaner.
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Fallow
Single-player alternative to Project Cartaphilus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Project Cartaphilus.
Clinging to the memory of her vanished sisters, an isolated woman wanders a dying reality.
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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Project Cartaphilus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Cartaphilus.
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
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Regular Factory: Escape Room
Single-player alternative to Project Cartaphilus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Cartaphilus.
You don't work in a regular assembly line. In this escape room, you will investigate what is really being manufactured in a secret factory, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles. Will you discover the truth?
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PONCHO
Single-player alternative to Project Cartaphilus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Cartaphilus.
A robot, a poncho and a journey of discovery! Make your way through this wonderful world of pixelated parallax platforming to solve the ultimate puzzle: who is Poncho?
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to Project Cartaphilus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Cartaphilus.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
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Some Distant Memory
Single-player alternative to Project Cartaphilus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Cartaphilus.
A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.