Single-player games like The Witness
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to The Witness, 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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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Witness.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Quern - Undying Thoughts
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Witness.
Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.
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Manifold Garden
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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Blue Prince
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
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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Chroma Zero
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.
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The Looker
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Witness.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Myst
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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Relicta
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.
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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
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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Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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Supraland
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.
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Baba Is You
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Witness.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
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TUNIC
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Witness.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
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Braid, Anniversary Edition
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.
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Order of the Sinking Star
Single-player alternative to The Witness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witness.
From director Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness), Order of the Sinking Star is a massive puzzle adventure set in a realm of magic and enigma. Solve over 1000 interconnected, hand-crafted puzzles, discover unique playable heroes, master evolving gameplay mechanics, and decipher a grand mystery.