Single-player games like Automaton Heart
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Automaton Heart, 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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Automaton Lung
Single-player alternative to Automaton Heart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.
Make use of your special abilities to skate, shoot, and fly through over 40 unique locations. In a strange land with almost no information you must be resourceful and clever. Question everything you see and trust nothing you hear.
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Disillusion ST
Single-player alternative to Automaton Heart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Automaton Heart.
A strange journey throughout an elaborate labyrinth awaits, featuring hundreds of characters and happenings as you try to gather items that once brought happiness to others.
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Pseudoregalia
Single-player alternative to Automaton Heart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.
Deep within the realm of sleep, Sybil finds herself pulled to a distorted castle. Grow strong, and unlock new abilities to build up a deep movement system, fight enemies, find secrets, and free the weary soul of Castle Sansa, in this retro-inspired 3D Platformer Metroidvania.
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Lucid Blocks
Single-player alternative to Automaton Heart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.
Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.
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Silver Pines
Single-player alternative to Automaton Heart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.
Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.
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Bleak Faith: Forsaken
Single-player alternative to Automaton Heart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.
Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.
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Crow Country
Single-player alternative to Automaton Heart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.
The year is 1990. It’s been two years since the mysterious disappearance of Edward Crow and the abrupt closure of his theme park, Crow Country. But your arrival has broken the silence, Mara Forest. If you want answers, you’ll have to venture deep into the darkness of Crow Country to find them…
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WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
Single-player alternative to Automaton Heart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Automaton Heart.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
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Willful
Single-player alternative to Automaton Heart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Automaton Heart.
Willful is a fast paced shooting/exploration game that takes place over ten worlds. Explore ruins, forests, other dimensions, and take down an evil organization as a small rabbit Will.
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Harold's Walk
Single-player alternative to Automaton Heart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.
Harold's Walk on Steam is a remaster of the original Harold's Walk game that debuted on the Nintendo 3ds in 2020. Odd and unusual spaces comprise most of your journey as you venture through this surreal collectathon.