Single-player games like The Talos Principle
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to The Talos Principle, 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 Witness
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Talos Principle.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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The Turing Test
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle.
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 Talos Principle 2
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Talos Principle.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
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A Day of Maintenance
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Talos Principle.
A Day of Maintenance is an explorative truck-driving interactive-fiction game set in the early 2100s with gay robots in it.
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Soft(A)ware
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Talos Principle.
A surreal puzzle-platformer where you bend gravity, rewind time, and disrupt a virtual prison built to contain you.
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Satan's Dungeon
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Talos Principle.
Philosophical horror where every mirror reveals a past sin. Solve puzzles, evade what hunts you, and navigate a non-linear path toward one of five unique endings in Satan's Dungeon.
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Vessels
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Talos Principle.
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.
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The Forgotten City
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Talos Principle.
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Talos Principle.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Talos Principle.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Talos Principle.
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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Myst
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Talos Principle.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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BioShock™
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Talos Principle.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Talos Principle.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Quantum Conundrum
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
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Serious Sam 3: BFE
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Talos Principle.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
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Serious Sam 4
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Talos Principle.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
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Serious Sam II
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Talos Principle.
Serious Sam II is a shot of adrenaline to the hearts of first-person shooter fans across the world. This is serious!
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Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Talos Principle.
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake version of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS which was Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001 and which scored overall of 87% on Metacritic!
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Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Talos Principle.
Serious Sam Fusion is a central hub for several existing Serious Sam games developed by Croteam. Cool new features, engine upgrades, patches and updates will be released to existing owners for FREE!
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Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Talos Principle.
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is a new stand-alone expansion to the world of the classic FPS series. Join the fight against Notorious Mental on a journey through the wild lands of Russia, and find your way through this lost chapter of Sam Stone's adventures.
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Serious Sam Classics: Revolution
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Talos Principle.
Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline arcade-action shooter heavily focused on frantic action. In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy-fiction and advanced technology is mixed with black magic and psycho-powers, Sam travels through four beautiful worlds, confronting countless foes on his way to Mental's base.