Single-player games like Maize
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Maize, 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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Holidays
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
In this interactive adventure, you play as a teacher suffering from delirium tremens. A world will open before you where every choice you make matters. Explore different locations, engage in battles, make decisions that will correspond to your desires and moral principles.
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Still Here
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Investigate a disturbing murder case in a world shaped by guilt, trauma and fractured memories. Explore unsettling locations, solve puzzles and uncover a truth your mind desperately tried to bury.
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Paradigm
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Paradigm is a surreal adventure game set in the strange and post apocalyptic Eastern European country of Krusz. Play as the handsome mutant, Paradigm, whose past comes back to haunt him in the form of a genetically engineered sloth that vomits candy.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
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Discolored
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.
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Oneiros
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Will you be able to break the vicious circle? Can you regain control? Experience the surreal adventure filled with many puzzles and psychedelic visions.
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Mr. Pumpkin Adventure
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Mr. Pumpkin's Adventure is a point-and-click puzzle game. The main character of this game is Mr. Pumpkin who lost his memories. During the adventure, you will help him solve all the puzzles, which will eventually unveil an evil plot.
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MirrorMoon EP
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Maize — 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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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maize.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Fallout: New Vegas
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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The Beginner's Guide
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
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Pony Island
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Maize.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
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Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality smashes together the absolute VR chaos of the award-winning Job Simulator with the ridiculous, all-out, take-no-prisoners comedy of Rick and Morty.
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Skully
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
On a mysterious remote island, a skull washes up on shore and is reawakened by an enigmatic deity. Dubbed Skully, the newly reanimated being has been summoned to intervene in a war between the deity’s three siblings, whose quarrel jeopardizes the island they call home.
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DeadRoot
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
DeadRoot is a barbaric medieval action-adventure set in a bug-sized world of underground dungeons and towering ruins. Splatter bug guts and slay colossal bosses as Kitt, a lone snail warrior, who must draw his sword against overwhelming odds.
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Robots at Midnight
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Bash through gangs of hostile robots and corrupt bosses in this stylish & punchy Action-RPG. As Zoe, a scrappy agile hero, you’ll search for your past while fighting for the future.