Single-player games like American Eristics
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to American Eristics, 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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Not Your Eyes
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
Your eyes cannot be trusted. A girl finds herself questioned by a twisted psychiatrist, helping a fallen angel, and followed by a bizarre stalker, descending to a beautiful, terrible world where nothing is as it seems.
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MDNE
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
MDNE - The game about your nightmare dream.
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A Butterfly
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner. A Butterfly is part horror, part interactive poem about overcoming and bittersweet surrender
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BANNED TAPES
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
VHS found footage horror experience. You have purchased a box of VHS tapes and now you have to select those tapes on which horrifying, violent, shocking events take place.
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Liminal Death
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
Liminal Death is a first person psychological horror game with liminal space environments where you will expirience what will happened when someone mind after it falls into comma and have to fight to get back to the body.
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SCREAM you LOSE
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
If you get startled, you go back to Number 0. A Japanese-style horror anomaly-spotting game that uses your microphone to detect your reactions. Eerie shrines, schools, and cult-like locations await, filled with all kinds of horror and anomalies.
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April 24th
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
The main character is an experienced journalist who always strives to uncover the truth. He manages to gain access to the house, which is guarded by the police.
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Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.
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Super Hipster Lumberjack
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You can't beat this game!!! Noah attempts to make a game for the first time. He then gets trapped in his own creation.
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Otter Space Rescue
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
Your Otter Space crew has been captured by evil robots. Save your team and fight together through endless rooms of evil robots.
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Apastron
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
The multiverse is in danger! Defend the world of Coelho #6, in this retro styled open world FPS.
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Entodrive
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
Monster Taming RPG about collecting magical computer bugs while exploring Cache Isle!
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Vacancy Unlimited
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
The dead fill the streets you grew up on. It's time to leave home in search for your father. Uncover the magical secrets of your family's past that will shape the apocalypse as you know it.
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Spryward
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
2.5D comic book goodness wrapped into an ongoing superhero game! This double feature includes issues 1-4 of the sidescroller Spryward and Issue 1 of the open world Spryward & Slushy. Features hand drawn characters set in the Apastron shared universe.
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Red Silhouette
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
2.5D survival horror game, where Eevi works security at the abandoned Silver Leaf Mall known to contain doors to many dead dreams.
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Oakley the Leafbug
Single-player alternative to American Eristics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with American Eristics.
Your best friend is going to make a horrible mistake that brings on the end of the world. Race across the Earth in this 2.5D platformer to find her, before it's too late!