Single-player games like The Talos Principle: Reawakened
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to The Talos Principle: Reawakened, 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 Talos Principle 2
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
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Pigbert
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
The Supreme Leader has summoned you to receive the Award of Excellent Labour. Navigate a landscape defined by strict quotas and failing harvests, facing Overseers and desperate workers in turn-based RPG combat. Reach the palace, stand before the Supreme Leader, and weigh the cost of stability.
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Cosmic Anchor
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Cosmic Anchor is a post-apocalyptic puzzle game about bending the laws of gravity, black holes and causality to your will. Exploit the emergent nature of the universe, and escape the intricate test-chambers together.
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Collection Quest
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
For the people who like reading quest descriptions and following context clues. Also a great experience for Achievement Hunters with 100 to collect. All while a subtle interconnected story unfolds. Free Roam Exploration awaits in a strange new world!
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IDIOT
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
Utopian island. Calm and happy life. Food is synthesized from cartridges. The night comes at your will. And you don't care about life outside the island. You know exactly what is bad there - this is what the state said, and it is always right.
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GRAFT
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
GRAFT, TRANSFORM, SURVIVE. Escape a dark, decaying space station the size of a continent in this story-driven survival horror RPG from the makers of BATTLETECH and the Shadowrun Trilogy.
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Core Decay
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Travel across a dying Earth and uncover a sinister plot to preserve humanity no matter the cost - even if it means redefining what makes us alive - in an old-school atmospheric immersive sim that explores the nature of consciousness and individuality.
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Hazel Sky
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
Hazel Sky is a heartfelt adventure about a young engineer facing his destiny and his desires. Fix ramshackle flying machines and jump, climb, swing, and slide through a beautiful, mysterious world.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — 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 Room
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
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Myst
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001!
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Superliminal
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
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.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
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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Serious Sam 3: BFE
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
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Serious Sam 4
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
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Serious Sam II
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Serious Sam II is a shot of adrenaline to the hearts of first-person shooter fans across the world. This is serious!
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Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake version of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS which was Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001 and which scored overall of 87% on Metacritic!
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Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Serious Sam Fusion is a central hub for several existing Serious Sam games developed by Croteam. Cool new features, engine upgrades, patches and updates will be released to existing owners for FREE!
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Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem
Single-player alternative to The Talos Principle: Reawakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Talos Principle: Reawakened.
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is a new stand-alone expansion to the world of the classic FPS series. Join the fight against Notorious Mental on a journey through the wild lands of Russia, and find your way through this lost chapter of Sam Stone's adventures.