Single-player games like Maize
Below are 17 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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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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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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The Magic Circle
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
In this darkly comedic story, you are the hero of an unfinished fantasy game, and your designers have failed you. Steal the power of a game god - trap their creations, swap behaviors and body parts, crafting your own unique solutions to free-form puzzles. Can you release a game ...from the inside?
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Jazzpunk: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.
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The Old City: Leviathan
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
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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Four Last Things
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.
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Puzzle Agent
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Maize.
Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!
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The Norwood Suite
Single-player alternative to Maize — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
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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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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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.