Single-player games like Primordia
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Primordia, 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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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primordia.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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Shardlight
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primordia.
A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
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Technobabylon
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primordia.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
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Machinarium
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primordia.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
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Whispers of a Machine
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Primordia.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
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Richard & Alice
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primordia.
Richard and Alice are prisoners. Both their cells have a leather sofa and a state-of-the-art computer. But only Richard’s has a TV. Outside, the snow falls. It has done for some time. Elsewhere, they say, parts of the world have been rendered an inhospitable desert, the earth parched and cracked. People live in the zones now.
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2064: Read Only Memories
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primordia.
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
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Stray
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primordia.
Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.
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Sierra Madre: The Wild West
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primordia.
Sierra Madre: The Wild West is a western, open world first person shooter survival game set in the 1870s. You play as a U.S. Marshall in the Wild West. Hunt outlaws, save the locals, and do whatever it takes to survive in your quest to rid the Wild West of injustice.
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Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primordia.
After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny of a fascist AI. Alone, save for the circuit board of his best friend, Foster must discover the sinister truth - and why they specifically came for him.
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The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Primordia.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
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Strangeland
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Primordia.
You wake in a surreal carnival, where a woman cries out to you before leaping to her death. Can either of you be saved? The denizens and devices of Strangeland answer with riddles, puzzles, and warnings of a Dark Thing lurking at the park’s peak. A new adventure from the creators of Primordia.
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Until I Have You
Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Primordia.
If you could save someone, how much of yourself would you be willing to sacrifice?Until I Have You aims to recount a thrilling story of regret, love, corruption, and things gone haywire, under the strong, vibrant neon lights of a metropolitan city that just doesn't give a damn.