Single-player games like Cryptica
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Cryptica, 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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Delirium
Single-player alternative to Cryptica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cryptica.
Delirium is a psychological horror game set in a suburban house. After a mysterious explosion, reality begins to unravel.
- 2
My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
Single-player alternative to Cryptica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryptica.
A dreamlike, half-remembered nowhere. Quietly wander through it, solve opaque puzzles, and meet strange figures as something beautiful unwinds.
- 3
The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Single-player alternative to Cryptica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryptica.
The Lies We Tell Ourselves is an episodic first person psychological action-adventure game with introspective/horror elements and a focus on subtle storytelling and atmosphere. Explore, solve puzzles, survive and uncover truths buried deep within a castle of lies.
- 4
Future Racer 2000
Single-player alternative to Cryptica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryptica.
Only You Can Be The Future Racer 2000
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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to Cryptica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryptica.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
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Mango
Single-player alternative to Cryptica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryptica.
A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.
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Revenge Of The Colon
Single-player alternative to Cryptica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cryptica.
Revenge of the colon is a story driven, single-player, atmospheric, body horror game with multiple endings. Perform colonoscopies on five patients and discover the horrors concealed deep within them. PS1 horror style!
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PAGER
Single-player alternative to Cryptica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryptica.
You are wetware, working a mysterious job.