Single-player games like Paradoxical
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Paradoxical, 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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Smiglee's Statues: The Cursed Curation
Single-player alternative to Paradoxical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paradoxical.
A short first-person narrative horror simulator about cataloging and restoring museum statues while uncovering unsettling inconsistencies.
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Cognition Method
Single-player alternative to Paradoxical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paradoxical.
Cognition Method is a story-driven, first-person puzzle game inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris. Discover the innovative mechanics of altering gravity and dive into the surreal setting. Find your way within a mysterious artifact and unveil a non-ordinary story.
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Halima
Single-player alternative to Paradoxical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paradoxical.
Enter a claymation dream world shaped by jinn, memory, and forgotten rituals. Solve symbolic puzzles, evade the Nightmare Jinn, and uncover the truth buried inside the dream.
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Smile, We're Watching
Single-player alternative to Paradoxical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradoxical.
Reality shifts when unobserved. Solve first-person puzzles using cameras, mirrors, and darkness to manipulate quantum objects. Survive your Ministry of Observation sentence while watched by a supervisor who hates paperwork.
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Astro Boost
Single-player alternative to Paradoxical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Paradoxical.
Through a space journey, explore multiple asteroids in search of rare resources! Play as Mineos, an astronaut equipped with a jetpack that will allow him to easily explore the asteroids and thus retrieve rare materials even in the most difficult-to-reach corners.
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CRAGGFALL
Single-player alternative to Paradoxical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paradoxical.
You are a rock. Craggfall is a physics-driven momentum game where you roll, leap, and crash a living rock through dynamic terrain. Shatter what stands in your way as you explore mysterious worlds. Build up speed into huge air, and relive every glorious wipeout in instant replay.
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Breakrooms
Single-player alternative to Paradoxical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradoxical.
You wake in the seams of a world that shouldn't exist. Breakrooms is a sci-fi horror adventure set in an alternate dimension that will make you question your own reality.
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Orbit Fall
Single-player alternative to Paradoxical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paradoxical.
Master thrust and momentum against gravity. Dodge hazards, land on distant planets, and complete missions using your ship’s systems. Move objects and clear paths. Manage fuel and damage, upgrade your craft, then launch back to orbit in this 2D pixel-art arcade adventure.