Single-player games like Insane Escape
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Insane Escape, 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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Trigon: Space Story
Single-player alternative to Insane Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Insane Escape.
Trigon: Space Story sees you take command of your very own spaceship. Carry out tactical battles, defend your vessel against space pirates, and escape from enemy territory. On your voyages, you’ll face a slew of tricky decisions in your quest to uncover the mystery of the galaxy.
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Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
Single-player alternative to Insane Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Insane Escape.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
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Deadnaut
Single-player alternative to Insane Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Insane Escape.
Deadnaut is Screwfly Studios' second game and follow up to cult hit, Zafehouse: Diaries. Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same.
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March of the Living
Single-player alternative to Insane Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Insane Escape.
Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
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Heat Signature
Single-player alternative to Insane Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Insane Escape.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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Astronaut: The Best
Single-player alternative to Insane Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Insane Escape.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to Insane Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Insane Escape.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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Daylight
Single-player alternative to Insane Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Insane Escape.
You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.