Single-player games like Overflow
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Overflow, 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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Paradise Lost
Single-player alternative to Overflow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overflow.
It's winter, 1980. Szymon, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, finds an abandoned Nazi bunker. Will he find what he’s looking for? Play Paradise Lost and explore an underground world, where Slavic mythology mixes with retrofuturistic technology. Discover the last story on Earth.
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Promesa
Single-player alternative to Overflow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overflow.
A contemplative experience where you’ll wander through the dreams, memories and fantasies emerging from a dialogue between a grandfather and his grandchild.
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The Elision Effect
Single-player alternative to Overflow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overflow.
The Elision Effect is a short surreal puzzle game. The last person finds themselves in an empty office. The place seems off, like it shouldn’t exist. Not knowing what made everyone abandon these liminal spaces, they look for an exit.
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The Berlin Apartment
Single-player alternative to Overflow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overflow.
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
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Mundaun
Single-player alternative to Overflow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overflow.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
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El 39
Single-player alternative to Overflow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overflow.
Constitución, CABA. 3 AM. You leave a party, feeling defeated because the girl you liked didn't even look at you. You go to wait for the last "39" bus of that night. You try to stop it, but it goes straight away. Tomorrow you have the exam that defines whether you graduate or not. Good luck.
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Eclipsium
Single-player alternative to Overflow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overflow.
Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Overflow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overflow.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.