Single-player games like The Time Machine
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Time Machine, 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 Utility Room
Single-player alternative to The Time Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
This VR Journey takes you to the 'behind the scenes' of the Universe. Beyond a door lies a barren landscape inhabited by strange rocky heads. Here, the maintenance and heavy lifting required keeps existence stable and temporal. You are a tourist. Don't do anything foolish.
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Manifold Garden
Single-player alternative to The Time Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
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A Fisherman's Tale
Single-player alternative to The Time Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
Bend and twist reality in A Fisherman's Tale, the mind-bending VR puzzle adventure game in which being turned upside down and inside out is not merely a play on words.
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Mango
Single-player alternative to The Time Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.
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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to The Time Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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I Expect You To Die
Single-player alternative to The Time Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Time Machine.
Test your problem-solving skills in this virtual reality escape-the-room puzzle game. Play as a secret agent armed with telekinetic abilities on a mission to stop Zoraxis, an evil corporation with plans for world domination.
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Metro Awakening
Single-player alternative to The Time Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Time Machine.
Metro Awakening is a story-driven first person adventure built for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth and combat in the most immersive Metro experience yet. Don your gas mask, brave the crippling radiation and venture into the depths of the Metro where threats haunt your every step.
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Wanderer
Single-player alternative to The Time Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Time Machine.
Built from the ground up for VR, Wanderer has a unique blend of escape room style puzzles, tactile hands on interactions and action arcade sequences to bring you the ultimate time travel adventure. Are you ready to walk in the footsteps of those who have gone before you?