Single-player games like Artifact
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Artifact, 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
- 1
The Passenger
Single-player alternative to Artifact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Artifact.
Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you. You flee, trapping yourself in human flesh, but will that be enough?
- 2
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
Single-player alternative to Artifact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Artifact.
The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?
- 3
DEVIL'S LIMINAL
Single-player alternative to Artifact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Artifact.
DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona before college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade at work, romance an enigmatic new girl, and stop the occult plot to take Margo's life.
- 4
Weirdo
Single-player alternative to Artifact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Artifact.
Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.
- 5
Yonder World: Interview with the Void
Single-player alternative to Artifact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Artifact.
A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.
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Typing Ritual
Single-player alternative to Artifact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Artifact.
Typing Ritual is a first-person psychological horror game where players perform a summoning ritual by typing ancient texts. As the ritual progresses, the environment changes, and tension builds. Mistakes have consequences, and time is limited.
- 7
Apollyon: River of Life
Single-player alternative to Artifact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Artifact.
Choice-based RPG in a dark fantasy world. Apollyon is narrative-driven, and features occult magic, spirit summoning, a deep universe, playable characters, and story progression alone or in multiplayer!
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Artifact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Artifact.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
- 9
Out of Space
Single-player alternative to Artifact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Artifact.
Strategy co-op online multiplayer game about living on a spaceship with your roommates. You'll need to generate resources, take care of a deadly alien infestation, upgrade your appliances and build your sustainable space home. Living together is never easy, especially when you are in outer space!