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Single-player games like Primordia

Below are 14 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 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2011IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Neo Cab — Steam game cover

    Neo Cab

    Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primordia.

    A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.

    2019IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Let Bions Be Bygones — Steam game cover

    Let Bions Be Bygones

    Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primordia.

    Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    2064: Read Only Memories — Steam game cover

    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

    2015IndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Whispers of a Machine — Steam game cover

    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.

    2019Adventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DIVINATION — Steam game cover

    DIVINATION

    Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Primordia.

    "What if you're born into this world without your permission?" DIVINATION is a very short visual novel where you act as a fortune teller in a futuristic world. Talk and listen to people's stories, then foresee their future using the runes they had drawn.

    2019IndieCasual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shardlight — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sentience: The Android's Tale — Steam game cover

    Sentience: The Android's Tale

    Single-player alternative to Primordia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primordia.

    You can remember nothing before this moment. Your existence begins with a keystroke followed by the flick of a switch. Electrical power streams into your neural network, and you are alive.

    2017IndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Machinarium — Steam game cover

    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!

    2009IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sierra Madre: The Wild West — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020Adventure49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Strangeland — Steam game cover

    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.

    2021Adventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Until I Have You — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016Indie13.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →