Single-player games like Terminal ESC
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Terminal ESC, 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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Hacknet
Single-player alternative to Terminal ESC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terminal ESC.
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
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hackmud
Single-player alternative to Terminal ESC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terminal ESC.
hackmud is a retro cyberpunk RPG where you play a digital persona in a chaotic, unpredictable, and often goofy abandoned internet. Enter a 90s hacker movie filled with scripts, scams, and sabotage. Explore the world of digital secrets and forge your legacy through cunning, creativity, or disruption.
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Midnight Protocol
Single-player alternative to Terminal ESC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terminal ESC.
Midnight Protocol is a tactical narrative-driven RPG with unique keyboard-only controls. Hack into servers, beat security systems and discover encrypted secrets while you try to find answers to why and how you got doxxed.
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Quadrilateral Cowboy
Single-player alternative to Terminal ESC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terminal ESC.
When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
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Void Sols
Single-player alternative to Terminal ESC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terminal ESC.
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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Grey Hack
Single-player alternative to Terminal ESC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terminal ESC.
Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.
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Uplink
Single-player alternative to Terminal ESC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terminal ESC.
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
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LIMBO
Single-player alternative to Terminal ESC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terminal ESC.
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
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Euclidean
Single-player alternative to Terminal ESC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terminal ESC.
Euclidean; a game of geometric horror; a slow descent into the dark, into madness, futility, and despair, where Things greater than you watch and wait and dream. Struggle for every second of life you have left… Even knowing you’re better off dead.
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Felt Tip Circus
Single-player alternative to Terminal ESC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terminal ESC.
Welcome to the smallest show on Earth! The lights are bright. The tension, real. The audience, demanding, even if they are made of wood. Now it’s your turn to compete in the greatest contest of skill ever to grace the miniature world of toys, trinkets and plain old junk!