Single-player games like Pneuma: Breath of Life
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Pneuma: Breath of Life, 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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The Solus Project
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
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FotoMuseo 3D
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.
A single-developer personal project. Discover all the hidden secrets in this little 3D Interactive Exploration Adventure. Your task is simple, cross the Earthgate Portal and visit a Photographic EXPO in the FotoMuseo. Collect clues and unlock new areas with your investigations.
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P·O·L·L·E·N
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.
P·O·L·L·E·N is an atmospheric, suspenseful and highly interactive first person sci-fi exploration game set on Saturn’s moon Titan. Delve into the richly detailed Station M, and try everything you can get your hands on to uncover the mysteries that lie beneath the moon’s crust.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.
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!
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Reflections
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.
Reflections is a real-world adventure game where every action you take has meaningful consequences that radically shape the experience. Each action you take is punctuated by flushing the black and white environment with color, illustrating your progress and providing clues to what your future might hold.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Home is Where One Starts...
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Thomas Was Alone
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pneuma: Breath of Life.
Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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The Turing Test
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.
The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.
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KILLRUN
Single-player alternative to Pneuma: Breath of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Run n' gun parkour speedrunner. Race to set the best times and create the fastest routes. Smash the pro times on every level and unlock new weapon packs as you progress through a prototype playground of replayable FPS mechanics. From the creators of BATTALION.