Single-player games like Commutator
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Commutator, 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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Please Duology
Single-player alternative to Commutator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Commutator.
A compilation of two slow-paced, cosmic horror walking simulators, to be completed in under an hour. Please makes you maintain a power station and ignore the noises from the main engine, while Please Follow has you explore the trenches of a losing war, exposing your mind to visions of another world.
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Transient: Extended Edition
Single-player alternative to Commutator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Commutator.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
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NIGHTSLINK
Single-player alternative to Commutator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Commutator.
You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.
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Homeostasis
Single-player alternative to Commutator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Commutator.
The stars aren't quite right and there is no one left to ask why. Navigate a desolate snowscape in your lone vehicle, keep your systems running and discover the fate of the expedition that came before you in this short retro survival horror experience.
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DRINK HUMAN BEANS
Single-player alternative to Commutator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Commutator.
You will created to be tortured by a sentient job application. You will learn to live, laugh, love until the walls bleed. You will become a succulent beverage.
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GULLET
Single-player alternative to Commutator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Commutator.
GULLET is a difficult cosmic-horror exploration game in which you rappel down into and explore a colossal mouth post-rapture. In it you will manage resources and control how quickly you descend by how tightly you squeeze your left hand brake in real life and in the game.
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Erebus-9
Single-player alternative to Commutator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Commutator.
Experience living hell in this reimagining of Dante’s Inferno as a cosmic, psychological horror. Survive the dangers that lurk in the darkness as you venture into the twisted depths of the Erebus-9 in a desperate bid to escape. The only way home is through hell itself.
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Mockbuster Video
Single-player alternative to Commutator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Commutator.
A first-person psychological horror set in a late-night 1990s video rental store. As disturbing tapes begin to surface, reality distorts and your decisions shape how the night unfolds.
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Did you visit CommutatorApply
Single-player alternative to Commutator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Commutator.
You will go blind in 291 days. Decide who gets a "Commutator" to survive in the new world. Four endings. Three are pure hell.
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VENERA 31
Single-player alternative to Commutator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Commutator.
Collect soil on Venus. Photograph the surface. Mark every rock. Log any unusual rock as HARVESTER. Do not keep looking at it
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OKTOFYBER
Single-player alternative to Commutator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Commutator.
A war simulator. Destroy the enemy with thirteen branches of troops. OKTAVA will assist you — the Offline Kill-chain for Tactical Attacks of Vehicles Autonomous.