Single-player games like The Cave
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to The Cave, 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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Trine 2: Complete Story
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
- 2
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Take control of Lara and her new partner Totec, a Mayan tribesman, and uncover the ancient artifact known as the "Mirror of Smoke" in this all new action adventure game.
- 3
Quantum Conundrum
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
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Thimbleweed Park™
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.
- 5
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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Rayman® Origins
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Experience the magical universe of Rayman with legendary 2D gameplay that has captured the hearts of millions of fans!
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Broken Age
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
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Reventure
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
The one and only non-linear adventure with 100 different endings. Don't just wishlist me. I'm not that expensive... also, look at those reviews!
- 9
Hero Siege
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Hero Siege is a fast paced Pixel Art ARPG featuring an expansive roster of unique classes, deep build experimentation, and a player driven economy.
- 10
Torchlight II
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
The adventure continues in Torchlight II! An Action RPG filled with epic battles, bountiful treasure, and a fully randomized world. Bring your friends along for the journey with online and LAN multiplayer.
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Maniac Mansion
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Quick, Dr. Fred's Kidnapped Sandy and he's about to start the experiment...
- 12
Psychonauts
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
- 14
Lost Castle 2
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
"Lost Castle 2" is a 2D Beat'em up Rogue-Lite game. Explore abundant treasures and items to enhance yourself, master various weapons to showcase your skills, and challenge powerful monsters to demonstrate your strength. A new adventure is calling for treasure hunters!
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Streets of Rogue
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
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Tale of Fallen Dragons
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
This is a dungeon crawler game with roguelike elements based on Ancient Chinese story. Under the Fallen Dragons Temple, you`ll fight with various dragons which all have different shapes. The art style is based on real artifacts from China, we hope you could experience a different style of our culture.
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Psychonauts 2
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
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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Brutal Legend
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
- 19
Grim Fandango Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
- 20
Spacebase DF-9
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
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Costume Quest
Single-player alternative to The Cave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.