Single-player games like MALPRAXIS™
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to MALPRAXIS™, 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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Enigma of Fear
Single-player alternative to MALPRAXIS™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to MALPRAXIS™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
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Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
Single-player alternative to MALPRAXIS™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
A wild tale of conspiracy, loss, friendship, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.
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Heaven Does Not Respond
Single-player alternative to MALPRAXIS™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
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Heavy Rain
Single-player alternative to MALPRAXIS™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
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Observation
Single-player alternative to MALPRAXIS™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to MALPRAXIS™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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An English Haunting
Single-player alternative to MALPRAXIS™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
While looking for the existence of the Great Beyond, Professor Patrick Moore, aided by a fake medium, will build a device to see the other side, embark on a search for a millenary artifact, and investigate the most haunted manor of 1907 England.
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RATSHAKER™
Single-player alternative to MALPRAXIS™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
RATSHAKER™ is the fun and quirky solution to all your rat problems! Hold on to the RAT, shake your arm, and watch life’s problems disappear! How far can you go?