Single-player games like The Swapper
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Swapper, 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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Smelted Kin
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
Science fiction 2D shooter with platformer and metroidvania elements. Players will have to explore a huge research complex consisting of nonlinear levels, which is crowded with robots
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Carestia
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
Explore the underground, solve the puzzles, get skills and fight against bizarre creatures.
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Outpost Delta
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
Outpost Delta is a single player, 2-D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter for PC. Take on the role of Delta, the outpost’s emergency defense, who along with her AI companion must defend the space station against alien intruders.
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NBB.EXE
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
NBB.EXE is a challenging fast paced puzzle platformer. Bomb your way to victory through devious gauntlets to reveal the secrets of the mysterious NEON Corp. in a modern reimagining of Bomberman with a metroidvania twist.
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Bionic Bay
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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The Turing Test
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Swapper.
The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.
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Lifeless Planet Premier Edition
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
PREMIER EDITION - While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon...
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Stephen's Sausage Roll
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Swapper.
A simple 3d puzzle game.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
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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Ori and the Blind Forest
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Swapper.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Swapper.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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The Witness
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Swapper.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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Baba Is You
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Swapper.
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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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Swapper.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.