Single-player games like The Elision Effect
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Elision Effect, 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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Mosaic
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
Enter a world that’s utterly surreal and eerily familiar. Escape the mundanity of your existence in an experience that will stay with you. Mosaic is a narrative-driven modern adventure game with a story that lasts about 2-3 hours.
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Jazzpunk: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.
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MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!
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The Old City: Leviathan
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
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Eclipsium
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.
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Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
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[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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Superliminal
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Elision Effect.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.