Single-player games like Elevator Zero
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Elevator Zero, 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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Homesick
Single-player alternative to Elevator Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
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Kairo
Single-player alternative to Elevator Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
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The Norwood Suite
Single-player alternative to Elevator Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Elevator Zero.
Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Elevator Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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The Old City: Leviathan
Single-player alternative to Elevator Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.
The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Elevator Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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The Gap
Single-player alternative to Elevator Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Elevator Zero.
Driven by a rare neurological affliction plaguing his family, Joshua has to recover his memories by exploring parallel realities through déjà vu. Facing the innermost depths of his past – moments both joyous and painful – seems to be the only way to get his life and family back together.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Elevator Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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Roundscape Adorevia
Single-player alternative to Elevator Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.
Roundscape Adorevia is a turn-based 2D adult RPG filled with extensive content, exotic companions, and dozens of story choices. Select your gender, origin, class, and companions to explore the lewd fantasy world of Adorevia.
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Below Sunshade
Single-player alternative to Elevator Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.
In Below Sunshade you find yourself shipwrecked and stranded on an uncharted island. Your only companion? A spoilt Elvish noblewoman who is far from used to such deprivations. Yet the two of you are not alone on the island.