Single-player games like Eidolon
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Eidolon, 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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Miasmata
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
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Empathy: Path of Whispers
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.
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Kholat
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.
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Proteus
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.
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Eastshade
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
You are a traveling painter, exploring the island of Eastshade. Capture the world on canvas using your artist’s easel. Talk to the inhabitants to learn about their lives. Make friends and help those in need. Visit cities, scale summits, unearth mysteries, and discover forgotten places!
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Cradle
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Cradle is a sci-fi first-person-view quest designed for the player to explore the surrounding world. The story is built around the relations of the protagonist and a mechanical girl who by quirk of fate found themselves amidst the desert.
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Sunset
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
It's 1972 and a military coup has rocked Anchuria. You, Angela Burnes, are trapped in the metropolitan capital of San Bavón. Your paradise has turned into a warzone. You take up a job as a housekeeper. Every week, an hour before sunset, you clean the swanky bachelor pad of the wealthy Gabriel Ortega.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Eidolon.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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DEATH STRANDING
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Eidolon.
From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an all-new, genre-defying experience. Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the disconnected remnants of our future in his hands, he embarks on a journey to reconnect the shattered world one step at a time.
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Tenderfoot Tactics
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
A party of goblins, granted magic by an ancient spirit, wanders the archipelago, fighting back the terrible Fog. Wield elemental power with wild repercussions in this open-world tactics RPG.
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Viridi
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eidolon.
Nurture a small pot of succulents that grow in real time. Viridi is a safe haven, a place you can return to for a moment of peace and quiet whenever you need it.
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Fire Place
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eidolon.
Savor the simple pleasure of building and maintaining a fire. Best enjoyed during seasonal gatherings and cold, dark nights.
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Pattern
Single-player alternative to Eidolon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eidolon.
Sometimes art isn't the product of a grand vision but rather the process. It's hard to know what you are trying to say until you've already said it.