Single-player games like Oblivio
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Oblivio, 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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Transit
Single-player alternative to Oblivio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oblivio.
Transit is a dark narrative adventure starring a sarcastic sock puppet in a world looping itself to death. Ride midnight trains through collapsing timelines, free traumatised souls, and search for your sister lost inside the loop.
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Mayfly
Single-player alternative to Oblivio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oblivio.
Mayfly is an eerie story-based quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Upon waking alone to find your husband is missing you find yourself weaving through a shifting, unstable reality as you search your confined surroundings in this focussed narrative exploration game.
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The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Single-player alternative to Oblivio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oblivio.
The Lies We Tell Ourselves is an episodic first person psychological action-adventure game with introspective/horror elements and a focus on subtle storytelling and atmosphere. Explore, solve puzzles, survive and uncover truths buried deep within a castle of lies.
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Invisum Piscium 嫌魚
Single-player alternative to Oblivio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oblivio.
Explore a familiar world that can never be fully understood.
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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to Oblivio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oblivio.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
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NEXT OBJECTIVE
Single-player alternative to Oblivio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oblivio.
The objective marker IS the monster. Play as Tom, a very obedient boy, and teach him how to disobey. Leave the playable area, break the rules, and fight back against a game that wants you to stay on script.
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ORMS
Single-player alternative to Oblivio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oblivio.
An atmospheric narrative puzzle-adventure set on a surreal Nordic island. Guide young Sam and his companion Kira through two shifting realities - switching between a world of terrifying shadows and a world of light to solve puzzles and reignite the broken lighthouse
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NULL
Single-player alternative to Oblivio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oblivio.
A first-person psychological horror game about grief, obsession, and love. Sleep to enter dreams, take control of them, and descend into deeper layers where time moves slower. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the mystery of a grieving father who created a world frozen in time.
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Denbora
Single-player alternative to Oblivio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Oblivio.
Break the laws of entropy in Denbora and jump through time to solve complex temporal puzzles. Can you defeat Dirua and the challenges it will put you through?