Single-player games like Soul Axiom
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Soul Axiom, 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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Master Reboot
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Soul Axiom.
Imagine a world where death is no longer final, where precious memories are saved to enjoy forever, where your soul is immortal. Master Reboot is a haunting first-person sci-fi adventure.
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Transient: Extended Edition
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Soul Axiom.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Soul Axiom.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Soul Axiom.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Soul Axiom.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Observation
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Soul Axiom.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
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Myst III: Exile
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Soul Axiom.
The story of Myst continues in this third entry of the series, originally released in 2001. Return to this strange and wondrous universe, where books become portals into worlds, and where the lessons of the past may yet hold meaning for today...
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GET EVEN
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Soul Axiom.
Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.
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Sker Ritual
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Soul Axiom.
An intense round-based zombie survival FPS, play solo or co-op. Shoot your way through relentless waves of vicious horrors with high-octane objectives, upgrading steampunk weapons, collecting Celtic God powers, and surviving the onslaught of the Quiet Ones.
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The Complex
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Soul Axiom.
After a major bio-weapon attack on London, two scientists find themselves in a locked-down laboratory with time, and air, running out. The Complex is an interactive sci-fi thriller movie where your decisions lead to one of eight suspenseful endings.
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Five Dates
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Soul Axiom.
Five Dates is an interactive rom-com about the unpredictable world of digital dating. With five potential female matches, Vinny explores whether compatibility, chemistry and connection is still possible in a world where physical touch is no longer an option.
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Soul Axiom.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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The Bunker
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Soul Axiom.
The Bunker is an award-winning interactive psychological horror movie. You are John, born underground the day the bombs fell, now alone and trying to survive. But when an alarm goes off, a catastrophic chain of events begins. Unlock the dark secrets of your past as you try to escape The Bunker.
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The Shapeshifting Detective
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Soul Axiom.
The Shapeshifting Detective is a supernatural murder mystery FMV game where you play as a detective who can shapeshift into other characters, allowing you to unlock secret conversations and private encounters.
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Bloodshore
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Soul Axiom.
Bloodshore is an interactive action movie about a televised battle royale between high-profile streamers, entertainers and death row inmates. You control the fate of Nick, a washed-up actor who fights for a life-changing cash prize.
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Dead Reset
Single-player alternative to Soul Axiom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Soul Axiom.
Trapped in a terrifying death-loop, surgeon Cole Mason is kidnapped and brought to an underwater facility, forced to operate on a patient to extract an evolving parasitic horror. Dead Reset is a blood-soaked interactive horror, where each death brings you closer to the truth.