Single-player games like Hylics
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Hylics, 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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Hylics 2
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hylics.
A surreal RPG with a unique graphical style and droll scenario.
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COPPER ODYSSEY
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hylics.
In this surreal press turn-based JRPG, you will take on a variety of strange creatures based on printmaking materials. As the Monitor, you must gather strength and find your friends, Bad Girl, Miss Gun, and Mr. Woodcut. In this non-linear story, do your best to defeat the 4 bosses!
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虚幻深渊 Dream Abyss
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hylics.
这是一款模拟了真实办公室白领的日常工作环境，又逐渐从现实环境慢慢走向奇幻的一个有趣故事。
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Aphantasia
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hylics.
Aphantasia is an Indie RPG created in the RPG Maker engine with a surreal art style.
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Entogious
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hylics.
Kill an angel in a real-time-turn-based combat style thats COMPLETELY UNFAIR and take it’s heart. Die 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 times who cares? Become the richest man alive. Hmmmm COWS?!?!!.
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Anima Reprise
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hylics.
It has been one hundred years. One hundred years since you were captured and a plot (or rather a sickly joke) to take over the universe and overthrow the king was enacted. Now the world is run by literal clowns, and you must overthrow the overthrowee, and take back the honor of the king.
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Mythic Mire
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hylics.
A surreal RPG-adventure set in a world between dreams and nightmares. Explore strange environments with your trusty digital Pixie companions.
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A Fishy RPG
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hylics.
A Fishy RPG is a retro-style game about surviving, exploring and finding legendary fishes in a strange and procedurally generated universe. Find the truth about fish, the surface fishermen and also Satan in this unique role-playing game.
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Undertale
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hylics.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
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Anodyne
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hylics.
A 2D action-adventure through a surreal, subconscious world. Explore moody dungeons, buildings, and atmospheric lands, evoked by dreamy music and visuals. Help the human Young awaken from their dream!
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Nubby's Number Factory
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
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OMORI
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hylics.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
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Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hylics.
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.
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Pathologic 2
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hylics.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
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Vanquish
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
PlatinumGames’ revolutionary sci-fi action shooter slide-boosts onto PC. Battle legions of future-tech enemies using a vast arsenal of weapons, including all DLC. Fully unlocked framerate and gorgeous HD resolutions up to 4K. The definitive way to play: war has accelerated.
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Cube Gothic
Single-player alternative to Hylics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hylics.
Cube Gothic is a Story-driven Shoot 'em up Adventure. Shooting enemies and dodging projectiles while solving simple puzzles and trying to comprehend the surreal plot - these are the challenges you'll be facing in Cube Gothic.