Single-player games like Phantoms
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Phantoms, 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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VIDEOVERSE
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
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Neo Cab
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
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2064: Read Only Memories
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
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Fragments of Him
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
An emotional and immersive game about a man named Will and the people close to him. Experience his life through a story about love, memories and hope.
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Monolith
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.
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Fall of Porcupine
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
A pidgeon-doctor in a small town. A broken healthcare system. A heartfelt narrative game. Fall of Porcupine tells an emotional story about a young doctor who struggles to find his place. Accompany Finley in a lovingly illustrated world and uncover the darkest secrets of Porcupine.
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Finding Paradise
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
Two doctors traverse backwards through a dying man's memories to fulfill his last wish. This is To the Moon's standalone sequel, but can also be played first.
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The Knight of the Crimson Tower
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
Laura is a daughter of the lord of the Crimson Tower. To impress her friends she steals a certain thing from an old witch, so the witch curses her: now, when the full moon rises, Laura turns into a beast and is put in a cage of her tower. But would it be enough to hold her?
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Raid
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
Raid is a detective visual novel with choices and consequences, unfolding in a cold, slow-paced, lost-in-time way of the scandinavian tv-shows.
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Lifesigns
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
The past was haunting — and so, you fled. To the deep web of streets, blinding lights, skyscrapers, creature comforts, a whole new life, a whole new you. Welcome to the City. Welcome to the Corporation. Welcome to the Game.
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The Soul Box
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
The Soul Box is a kinetic visual novel about the mystery of a puzzle box. A story of a heritage hidden behind what’s written. A different look at the future, a worried glance at the past.
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For Ever Melancholia
Single-player alternative to Phantoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantoms.
An archaeology student is sent to do his summer training in a place far away from civilization. There he meets three beautiful girls who share his passion for cinema and art. What can possibly go wrong?