Single-player games like Afterplace
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Afterplace, 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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Angeline Era
Single-player alternative to Afterplace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.
Explore a secret-filled land in this 3D Action-Adventure, where every level is hidden in plain sight! Travel and fight through a vast, unmarked overworld. The next surprise is only a single search away!
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Tombwater
Single-player alternative to Afterplace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.
A Souls-Like Western full of Eldritch horrors. Explore the accursed Wild West town of Tombwater and lay bare the darkness that lies beneath. Survive blood-spilling combat in this gruesome 2D action-RPG that may just drive you to madness.
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Void Sols
Single-player alternative to Afterplace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.
Abstract ruins. Hostile shapes. No escape but forward... Death isn’t the end as you know it. Here, it’s how you grow! Each defeat teaches you more as you rise again to defeat foes with stolen blades and bows. Pushing through a broken world warped by cruelty and shadows. Welcome. This is Void Sols.
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Hyper Light Drifter
Single-player alternative to Afterplace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
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Undertale
Single-player alternative to Afterplace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Afterplace.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
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Crashlands
Single-player alternative to Afterplace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
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Crypt Custodian
Single-player alternative to Afterplace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Afterplace.
Crypt Custodian is a charming metroidvania about cleaning up the afterlife. Play as Pluto - a mischievous cat who has died, and is sentenced to be the afterworld's janitor... FOREVER! Hang out with other doomed ghosts, battle beasts, and explore a vastly expansive landscape.
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Look Outside
Single-player alternative to Afterplace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Afterplace.
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
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TUNIC
Single-player alternative to Afterplace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Afterplace.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
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Yume Nikki
Single-player alternative to Afterplace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterplace.
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
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OMORI
Single-player alternative to Afterplace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterplace.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
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MOTHER
Single-player alternative to Afterplace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Afterplace.
MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!