Single-player games like Matchstick: Cosmic Flame
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Matchstick: Cosmic Flame, 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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DERELIKT
Single-player alternative to Matchstick: Cosmic Flame — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Matchstick: Cosmic Flame.
DERELIKT is a narrative retro FPS built for fans of claustrophobic PS1-era sci-fi horror.
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Netherwake
Single-player alternative to Matchstick: Cosmic Flame — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Matchstick: Cosmic Flame.
Netherwake is a story-driven first-person psychological horror game. Explore a town consumed by unnatural fog and a facility beneath the mountain. Hide from deadly anomalies, solve environmental puzzles, and uncover what happened before they find you.
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Angels In Orbit
Single-player alternative to Matchstick: Cosmic Flame — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Matchstick: Cosmic Flame.
The year is 2170. An anomaly has ripped through the AIO Station, leaving a lone technician fighting to survive. As the silence of deep space closes in, biblical angels descend, beginning trials of morality, judgment, and the price of human ambition.
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Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype
Single-player alternative to Matchstick: Cosmic Flame — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Matchstick: Cosmic Flame.
Trapped in an eerie dungeon, you must solve puzzles and evade lurking horrors to find the only chance of survival. Every step could lead you to freedom...or to your demise...
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Deeper Still
Single-player alternative to Matchstick: Cosmic Flame — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Matchstick: Cosmic Flame.
A really hard immersive sim set in a dystopian and nihilistic world. To complete each level, start with a plan by choosing weapons, paths and abilities. Die. Find a better plan. Die again. Repeat until you finish the level. Then replay the levels to find new creative ways to beat them.
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Red moon
Single-player alternative to Matchstick: Cosmic Flame — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Matchstick: Cosmic Flame.
A first- and third-person shooter. It combines several genres, including shooter, horror, sci-fi, and time travel.
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Yesterdreamt
Single-player alternative to Matchstick: Cosmic Flame — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Matchstick: Cosmic Flame.
Heavy movement, limited ammo and precious sanity. Yesterdreamt is a twin-stick horrorvania where the odds are stacked against you, Gunslinger. Unlock arcanicks to tip the scales and keep close to your dog, and you might just win this fight. And if you were to fall, well… Blessed be the Dreamweavers.
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Mother Hub
Single-player alternative to Matchstick: Cosmic Flame — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Matchstick: Cosmic Flame.
A retro FPS with an artistically gritty setting from the early 2000's. Uncover futuristic weapons lost to time and face off against terrifying bosses. Do you have what it takes to stand against the darkness and save humanity from the brink of extinction?