Single-player games like Alice: Madness Returns
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Alice: Madness Returns, 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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Psychonauts
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition is the complete edition of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, a dark and vivid new re-imagining of the Castlevania mythology. It is the end of days and ungodly powers isolate the Earth.
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Three Defilements
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Three Defilements is a hack and slash adventure game about a young woman who keeps waking up in the same place every day. She travels to find a way out of this cycle, passing through various strange places. and must battle her most vexing foe, her own defilements.
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GwenBlade
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
SLASH YOUR FEARS in light-paced action/platformer with Story-driven Roguelite in the minds of mentally ill people! Solodev project on UE5
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Koshmar: The Last Reverie
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
When a city falls to a sleeping plague, nightmares rise up. Awaken the city as a mortician’s daughter who walks the line between the sleeping and the waking. Fight through the dreams, seal the rifts, make choices that chip away at who she is, try to become the nightmare that nightmares fear.
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Zorro and Zedd
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Slay Dragons, collect magical gems, unlock ancient powers, and adventure through the mystical land of Dundalk as Zorro and Zedd. Vanquish the dreaded Dragon Lords, defeat the Dragon King, and retake your Homeland for all Bat-kind!
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Dark Wonderland
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Alice finds herself lost in a whimsical but dangerous Wonderland. In this dark fantasy action-adventure you will meet the twisted creeps and critters that inhabit it, feel free to kill them, they're mad like you.
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The Cruel Dreamer Marchosias
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Join Wolf on their mission to right the atrocity committed against their family. Together with the mysterious entity 'IV', Wolf will brave the monsters lurking in the shadows, explore long-forgotten ruins and solve mysterious puzzles in order to reach an ancient castle located between worlds.
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Fran Bow
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
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BioShock™
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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NieR:Automata™
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
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BioShock Infinite
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.
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THE GAME
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The right path or the left path? Which will you choose? To get the Free Pass and finish the game you have to make an important choice.
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Little Nightmares II
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Little Nightmares II is the second game in a series that has thrilled and captivated millions of players worldwide since 2017. Now it’s your turn to try to survive this critically acclaimed entry in the most charming horror series ever made.
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The Gate
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
The Gate is a 3D Card Collecting Game with elements of RTS and RPG. Originally available on mobile and via the web, The Gate was brought to Steam with the help of Steam users via Project Greenlight. Now heading into its 2nd year online, The Gate features PvP tournaments, where you can put your Card Collection into battle against other...