Single-player games like Darknet
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Darknet, 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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System Escape
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Darknet.
Can you escape this difficult underground facility? Robots listen for your every move and cameras monitor sensitive areas. You'll find a utility device and laser gun, but being stealthy will be your best chance at staying alive! Made for VR, but supports non-VR play too.
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Astraeus
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darknet.
Astraeus is a VR asteroid mining RTS game that's quick to play, easy to learn, and enormous in scope. Build a mining network from dozens of bases, and watch as hundreds of ships swarm around you.
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beVaiR
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darknet.
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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Dataminers
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darknet.
Get inside the mind of an ethical hacker and race against the firewall as you collect data, hack terminals and bring enemies down from the inside. Dataminers is a casual logic game, where you climb and clear towers full of data mines.
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Adapt or Perish
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darknet.
This is more than just an odd looking strategy game, it is a strategy platform. Genetically engineer amorphic creatures & buildings, in real time, in an endlessly open world that adapts to your playstyle. Share, and even battle your designs. How much will they be worth?
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Maze
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Maze is a short psychedelic experience. Run and fight enemies in randomly generated levels.
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Neon Cipher
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Darknet.
Neon Cipher is an action-packed puzzle-platformer designed for smooth and engaging gameplay. Across 50 levels, you'll use third- and first-person mechanics to solve intricate puzzles and battle enemies blocking your path.
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Security Hole
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Darknet.
Can you push through?! Security Hole is a challenging spatial puzzle with a cyberpunk story. You become a hacker who passes 3D virus blocks through security holes to save humanity. The game mechanics look like a workout tool for spatial thinking.
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Ironlights
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Ironlights is a VR dueling game with skillful, fluid melee combat. Parry, block, and strike down your opponents using a variety of physics-based weapons. Test your skills in multiplayer battles, or fight to the top of the league in the huge single-player campaign!
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Auralux: Constellations
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darknet.
Auralux: Constellations is the awaited sequel to Auralux, the critically acclaimed minimalistic Real Time Strategy game. Explore a dozen new gameplay mechanics through each constellation, one new feature at a time. It's Real-Time Strategy, deconstructed.
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Tactera
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darknet.
Tactera is a Real-Time Strategy game played on a “virtual tabletop”. Comes with VR (Rift/Vive) and non-VR versions! Inside a futuristic war room, a 3D hologram shows two armies on the verge of battle. Build swarms of gunships, tanks, bombers, and other units to strategically outmaneuver the enemy!
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Skylight
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darknet.
Skylight is a turn-based tactics game of colossal space battles, with VR and non-VR versions. Command nimble squadrons of fighters, specialized frigates, and giant capital ships as you orchestrate your forces toward victory.
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IRONSTRIKE
Single-player alternative to Darknet — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
IRONSTRIKE is a 4-player co-op roguelike featuring physics-based swordplay, gestural spellcasting, and archery. Wield a sword, bow & arrow, or magic, and customize your build as you fight to rescue the gods of a vibrant fantasy world.