Single-player games like Environmental Station Alpha
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Environmental Station Alpha, 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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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Environmental Station Alpha.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Environmental Station Alpha.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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Rain World
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Environmental Station Alpha.
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
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The Swapper
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Environmental Station Alpha.
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
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La-Mulana
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Environmental Station Alpha.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
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Gato Roboto
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Environmental Station Alpha.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
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Alwa's Awakening
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Environmental Station Alpha.
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
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PLANET ALPHA
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Environmental Station Alpha.
PLANET ALPHA, a beautiful alien world filled with mystery and danger. Pursued by relentless enemies, you must harness the power of night and day as you struggle to survive.
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TUNIC
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Environmental Station Alpha.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Environmental Station Alpha.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Environmental Station Alpha.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
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NieR:Automata™
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Environmental Station Alpha.
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
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Macbat 64
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Environmental Station Alpha.
Macbat 64 is a low poly 3D Platformer and 4:3 loveletter to the late 90s.
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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Environmental Station Alpha.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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Noita
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Environmental Station Alpha.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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FEZ
Single-player alternative to Environmental Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Environmental Station Alpha.
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.