Single-player games like Alcatraz
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Alcatraz, 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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Village
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alcatraz.
A young boy has come to a distant village to visit his grandmother. Arriving at the final station, in some wilderness, we find newspaper clippings on the platform. This is where our tangled story begins.
- 2
Nafanya the Poltergeist
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alcatraz.
A game about a house spirit - Houseboy. With the name Nafanya. The player will have to get out of a multi-unit Soviet house, which is run by the Domovoi. To find the way out, you will have to solve riddles from the spirit, and maybe even make friends with him.
- 3
Detective Gman
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alcatraz.
Detective simulation. Top down open world exploration.
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Central Killing Agency
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alcatraz.
In this 2d pixel art game, it's 1953 and you're playing as an agent hired by the Central Killing Agency to kill Fred Olsen. Experience multiple endings in this short, narrative-driven adventure.
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Program Penguin
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alcatraz.
Program Penguin is a humorous, tightly paced action-adventure game with an unforgettable cast. Think classic Zelda meets Club Penguin all rolled up in a classic retro style.
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Santo Island Incident
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alcatraz.
MYSTERY - EXPLORING - PUZZLE - Overgrowth took over the whole Santo Island and facility as a result of an unknown incident. Your mission is to find out the source of the incident and solve what's happened at Santo Island.
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The Unsettled
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alcatraz.
The Unsettled is a first-person psychological horror game. You, as a paranormal investigator, is on a journey to find a missing girl. In order to find the truth, you plan to visit a boarding school in the Indian Himalayan Region.
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Sand: A Superfluous Game
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alcatraz.
An open-world, base-building, adventure game with quirky humor and llamas. Explore the wasteland of Alaska smashing skeletons in your supped-up cab and trading veggies with the native rhino people. Do the bidding of a mysterious cube from space and unlock the secrets of the desert.
- 9
August Walk
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alcatraz.
The game has three story branches: normal, realistic, and mystical walk. In the normal branch you can just walk around the summer city, the forest and the spring.
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Sandbox
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alcatraz.
The goal of the game is to collect 22 bills. To collect them, you need to press the "play" button and move to the sandbox level.
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Carnival in the hut
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alcatraz.
There are ingredients on the level that you have to drag into the pot. Drag into the pot: eggs, oil, water in a bucket, flour in a bag, and dough (on water). (The name of the items is shown in the lower left corner.)
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Keepers
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alcatraz.
Keepers is a space-themed clicker game. You are an employee of a center tasked with saving a planet - a typical light-year.
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Memory Patches
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alcatraz.
A visual short novel about a girl who wakes up in an empty apartment and tries to figure out what happened. In front of her are four boxes filled with different items from her past. Touching them, she recalls pieces of memories, but one of the items is cursed.
- 14
Stellario
Single-player alternative to Alcatraz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alcatraz.
In a large star field, the Spirit flies around and absorbs stars to build up mass and take on a different appearance. But you have to be careful on the journey - there are black holes scattered around the field, and also spaceships flying at unthinkable speeds.