Single-player games like Joy Malignant
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Joy Malignant, 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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Celestial Return
Single-player alternative to Joy Malignant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.
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Isentroth
Single-player alternative to Joy Malignant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
Swear an oath and walk into the Isenmarch — a cold Norse frontier that does not explain itself. A Machine Game Master narrates your saga, answers the choices you make, and rolls the dice at your side. No two sagas are alike. What breaks first — your isen, or your troth?
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Aphantasia
Single-player alternative to Joy Malignant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
Aphantasia is an Indie RPG created in the RPG Maker engine with a surreal art style.
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Single-player alternative to Joy Malignant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
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Citizen Sleeper
Single-player alternative to Joy Malignant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
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人类动物园 Human Zoo
Single-player alternative to Joy Malignant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
Beautiful teenagers, dreams, grotesque orgies. When no one in the world is awake anymore, is your sanity an alternative madness? A turn-based surrealist psychological horror game with beautiful L2D combat artwork and a deep, philosophical plot.
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Vagrus - The Riven Realms
Single-player alternative to Joy Malignant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Joy Malignant.
Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Accompanied by a hardy crew, you must trade, fight, and explore your way to success as the leader of a traveling company in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.
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The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
Single-player alternative to Joy Malignant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.