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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KEROGEN
Single-player alternative to Cryptica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryptica.
Dredge up corpses from an oil-drenched nightmare. Lost at sea, the small crew of the 𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐒 calls for aid. Elmsfire dances in the clouds above while black beasts stir in the waves beneath. Take your meds. Hold your breath. The black sea won't let go.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!