Single-player games like RECUR
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to RECUR, 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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Soft(A)ware
Single-player alternative to RECUR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RECUR.
A surreal puzzle-platformer where you bend gravity, rewind time, and disrupt a virtual prison built to contain you.
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Echo Weaver
Single-player alternative to RECUR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RECUR.
Time is your greatest resource and secrets are your only upgrades. Master an unraveling time loop in this knowledge-based Metroidvania. As the last Weaver, exploit time-altering anomalies and use what you learn to break the cycle. Explore what remains. Uncover the mystery. Perfect the loop.
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ARTIFICIAL
Single-player alternative to RECUR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RECUR.
ARTIFICIAL is a physics based first-person puzzle platformer inspired by Portal & Half-Life series. Interact with the environment, pick up and throw objects, sneak around enemies, control intricate physics-based mechanisms and learn how to survive in the underground colony of the Asteroid 2031 XT
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DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
Single-player alternative to RECUR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with RECUR.
From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?
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Minute of Islands
Single-player alternative to RECUR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RECUR.
Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface...
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The Cub
Single-player alternative to RECUR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RECUR.
From the creators of Golf Club Nostalgia and Highwater. Return to their whimsical, neon-lit apocalypse in a Jungle Book meets The Armageddon fusion. Parkour through the remains of humanity as a child being hunted, while catchy end-of-days tunes and curious survivor stories play on the radio.
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SECTOR ZERO
Single-player alternative to RECUR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RECUR.
SECTOR ZERO is a short, physics-based dark sci-fi puzzle adventure where you play as a fragment of an ancient hive-mind entity, awakened by mining operations deep within Asteroid 2031 XT.
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Lifeless Planet Premier Edition
Single-player alternative to RECUR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RECUR.
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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A Juggler's Tale
Single-player alternative to RECUR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RECUR.
Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?