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Single-player games like Crystal Rift

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Crystal Rift, 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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    Operencia: The Stolen Sun — Steam game cover

    Operencia: The Stolen Sun

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    Operencia: The Stolen Sun embraces everything you love about classic first-person dungeon-crawlers, enhancing the old-school turn-based RPG experience with modern sensibilities. Guide a team of memorable characters through a world inspired by Central European mythology.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    KryptCrawler — Steam game cover

    KryptCrawler

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    KryptCrawler brings classic first person, grid based Dungeon Crawler gameplay to your PC and VR. Descend into the unknown and explore the perilous depth of the sinister tombs and crypts you are thrown into, armed with nothing but a map and your wits.

    2018ActionAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition — Steam game cover

    MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!

    2014StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed — Steam game cover

    The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    Embark on the sci-fi epic that started it all at the dawn of modern VR, setting standards for roomscale movement and interaction for years to come. Winner of over 30 awards including "VR Game of the Year", The Gallery is VR's premier adventure series.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Legend of Grimrock 2 — Steam game cover

    Legend of Grimrock 2

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    Legend of Grimrock 2 is a dungeon crawling role playing game with a modern execution but an oldschool heart. A group of four prisoners have shipwrecked on the secluded Isle of Nex. The island is filled with ancient crumbled ruins, mysterious shrines and a vast underground network of dungeons.

    2014IndieAdventureRPG23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Narcosis — Steam game cover

    Narcosis

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.

    2017IndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle — Steam game cover

    Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    A Japanese "yokai" castle-maze adventure inspired by the real-time first person dungeon RPGs of the 1980s. Infiltrate the mysterious Hyakki Castle that appeared in a land of exiles as part of a secret anti-supernatural government group and defeat its master!

    2017ActionAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Half-Life: Alyx — Steam game cover

    Half-Life: Alyx

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.

    2020ActionAdventure59.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™ — Steam game cover

    Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    Enter the dark underworld of Prince of Persia Warrior Within, the sword-slashing sequel to the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™. Hunted by Dahaka, an immortal incarnation of Fate seeking divine retribution, the Prince embarks upon a path of both carnage and mystery to defy his preordained death.

    2008ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Prince of Persia® — Steam game cover

    Prince of Persia®

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    The critically acclaimed Prince of Persia® franchise returns for the first time on next-generation platforms with an all-new epic journey. Built by the same award-winning Ubisoft Montreal studio that created Assassin's Creed™, Prince of Persia has been in development for over three years to deliver a whole new action-adventure gaming...

    2008ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Legend of Grimrock — Steam game cover

    Legend of Grimrock

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    Use the Dungeon Editor to build entirely new adventures and challenges for other players to solve.

    2012IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Beholder — Steam game cover

    Beholder

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

    2016StrategyIndieAdventure13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Oh, Dungeon Master — Steam game cover

    Oh, Dungeon Master

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    Oh, Dungeon Master is a dungeon simulator, with elements of a roguelike game. Explore the intricate underground mazes and dense forests to exterminate monsters and find all the pictures!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Windlands — Steam game cover

    Windlands

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    A first person grappling hook exploration game.Soar through the ruins of a fallen world and discover the secrets of the ancients. Designed with full Virtual Reality support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, also works great in Non VR.

    2016IndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Windlands 2 — Steam game cover

    Windlands 2

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    Windlands 2 is a built-for-VR fantasy action adventure game, use grappling hooks and a bow to explore the vast mysterious world to take down gigantic titans alone or with friends.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Titan Isles — Steam game cover

    Titan Isles

    Single-player alternative to Crystal Rift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Crystal Rift.

    Titan Isles is a high-mobility action-adventure shooter where you pilot four unique Exo Suits, each with its own combat style and movement mastery. Upgrade your abilities, battle colossal Titans across the Isles, and play solo or with up to three friends in seamless 4-player co-op.

    2025ActionAdventure24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →