Single-player games like Neon Cipher
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Neon Cipher, 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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DEUS EX MACHINA: Episode 1
Single-player alternative to Neon Cipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Cipher.
Deus ex Machina is a VR room escape game where you solve puzzles in the lab of a crazy scientist. Become a member of DEM ( Deus Ex Machina ) and save the world in danger.
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Pixel Arcade
Single-player alternative to Neon Cipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Cipher.
Portal into neon cyberspace in Pixel Arcade®. Defy gravity, optimize your strategy, and vault through adrenaline-packed levels. Achieve global dominance in the leaderboard to become a VR champion in the ultimate test of precision and agility.
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STRIDE: Fates
Single-player alternative to Neon Cipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Neon Cipher.
Step into the shoes of a parkour spec-ops officer. Traverse your way through the rooftops and basements of dystopian Airon City - from slums to affluent skyscrapers. Deal with power shifts in gangs, dirty family feuds, corporate secrets, forbidden tech, and other obstacles to understand your past.
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Codebreakers VR
Single-player alternative to Neon Cipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Cipher.
Codebreakers is a chaotic VR Action Shooter that takes place in a dystopian future where various organizations are fighting for control of the world order.As a breaker, you will have to infiltrate, defeat enemies and avoid security systems to extract data.
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beVaiR
Single-player alternative to Neon Cipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Cipher.
beVaiR is a unique combination of story and immersive VR strategy game. Become a neurohacker and modify the living network through strategic actions: collect energy, convert it according to your demands and shoot it at the nodes. Help your faction dominate!
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VirtualBuster
Single-player alternative to Neon Cipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Cipher.
"Virtual Buster is an action-adventure game where you take out robot criminals with swords and guns in a realistic virtual reality (VR) world. Players use special weapons and missions of varying difficulty to emerge as city heroes and demonstrate strategy."
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Impossible Challenge
Single-player alternative to Neon Cipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Cipher.
Impossible Challenge is a very very hard reflex platformer game. Try to complate levels and enjoy your suffer! Attention : If you think you are a pro gamer, this game will break your heart.
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VR Invaders
Single-player alternative to Neon Cipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Neon Cipher.
Dive into a virtual sci-fi world as the freelance hacker Thomas Hall to save a cyber artist that got stuck in virtual reality. Fight legions of enemy drones with your multi-functional loadout. Slow time, transform your weapon and blast through your enemies in this immersive VR shooter.