Single-player games like The Swapper
Below are 16 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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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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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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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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The Pedestrian
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Swapper.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
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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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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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Observation
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Swapper.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
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FEZ
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Swapper.
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.
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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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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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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.
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Infinifactory
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Swapper.
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Swapper.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
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The Magic Circle
Single-player alternative to The Swapper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
In this darkly comedic story, you are the hero of an unfinished fantasy game, and your designers have failed you. Steal the power of a game god - trap their creations, swap behaviors and body parts, crafting your own unique solutions to free-form puzzles. Can you release a game ...from the inside?