Single-player games like The Elision Effect
Below are 11 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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Fourth Time Around
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
Henry is an elderly man with regrets. Over the course of his life, he has killed three times. He is about to kill again. Survive a home invasion as you recount his life through a series of dreamy vignettes featuring a thief, a friend, a lover, and mysterious bartender.
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Box of Broken Nails
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
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The House in the Forest
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
The House in the Forest is a short, first-person exploration game about a family who moved out to go live a lonely life. You'll play as a person who got lost on the way back to his house ends up discovering clean but an abandoned house.
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![[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1228520/header.jpg?t=1662351577)
[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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Evie
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
A girl crashed into a dark forest not knowing where to go, curiosity drives her to open a Pandora’s box that was never meant to be opened.
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What Happened to Lily?
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
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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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NIGHTSLINK
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to The Elision Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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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.