Single-player games like Alice: Madness Returns
Below are 17 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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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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Psychonauts 2
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
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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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The Darkest Tales
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
When a nightmare creeps into reality, the only ones that can help are those whose magical powers we’ve believed in since childhood. A brave teddy bear heads to the far side of “happily ever after” to rescue his owner, Alicia.
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Saviorless
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Embark on a journey to The Smiling Islands, the realm of the Saviors, where an enigmatic guide beckons. The seasoned narrator has shared this story countless times, yet none have graced the miraculous land. Can you seize your narrative and ascend as a Savior?
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Death's Door
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
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Lost in Random™
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Play the odds in Lost in Random™, a gothic-fairy-tale-inspired action-adventure where every citizen’s fate is determined by a roll of the dice.
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BioShock™ Remastered
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any other, loaded with unique weapons and tactics. Complete with an arsenal of revolvers, shotguns, and grenade launchers, players will be forced to genetically modify their DNA to become an even deadlier weapon.
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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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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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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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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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Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Shadows of the Damned, an action-adventure road trip through hell, has been remastered at last! Get ready for a story about rock, love, and just a little bit of demon slaying.
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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to Alice: Madness Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
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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...