Single-player games like Poreia
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Poreia, 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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Stray
Single-player alternative to Poreia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poreia.
Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.
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Cat Journey
Single-player alternative to Poreia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poreia.
What interesting story will happen when a little cat falls asleep on the sofa and goes to an underground city?
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Sunset Inferno
Single-player alternative to Poreia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Poreia.
Sunset Inferno is a choice-driven narrative adventure where you are a Recycler: a machine built to hunt war deserters. But a targeted explosion shatters your programming. Find the saboteur before your makers decide you've learned too much.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Poreia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poreia.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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CAT Interstellar
Single-player alternative to Poreia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poreia.
A short story inspired by Robert Heinlein's:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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State of Mind
Single-player alternative to Poreia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poreia.
State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.
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Beyond a Steel Sky
Single-player alternative to Poreia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poreia.
From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.
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Rumu
Single-player alternative to Poreia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poreia.
Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure that follows the path into sentience of a robot vacuum cleaner.