Single-player games like GeneWorld
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to GeneWorld, 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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Into The Matrix
Single-player alternative to GeneWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with GeneWorld.
"Into The Matrix" is a multiplayer horror game where you and your friends must explore, survive, and outsmart dangers . Many entities are after you, but the Overseer is the true threat. Can you escape its grasp?
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The Super Kid Game
Single-player alternative to GeneWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with GeneWorld.
The Super Kid Game is a momentum-based action platformer with a 2D comic aesthetic. Fill your FLOW meter for breakneck speed and healing! Evade capture for a crime you didn't commit, hunt down the oppressive regime of a rising dictator, and become the hero a breaking city badly needs.
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Grip on Reality
Single-player alternative to GeneWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with GeneWorld.
Follow adventures of a crazy wizard casting spells. The spells tend to be quite chaotic and unpredictable. The wizard finds himself embarking on a long quest across the world to uncover the mysterious cult worshipping a crystal, the same crystal powering the wizards staff.
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Sporebound
Single-player alternative to GeneWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with GeneWorld.
A group of adventurers has vanished across a chain of mysterious islands. Explore dangerous biomes, combine elemental magic to create powerful spells, battle corrupted creatures, uncover ancient relics, and rescue the lost adventurers as you track down the source of a spreading corruption.
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虚妄之言 Hollow Life And INsincere Words
Single-player alternative to GeneWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with GeneWorld.
One ordinary day in the future, change began. An energy source was suddenly developed, and people began to indulge in revelry. After the joy, 13 cities quietly emerged, leaving behind 13 terrifying pits and countless ordinary people···
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Stones of Harlath
Single-player alternative to GeneWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with GeneWorld.
* compatible only with Oculus Rift/Rift S for the time being *Stones of Harlath is a first person dungeon crawler in VR. Players will play as a powerful battle mage, wield swords, shields and maces and cast powerful magic by drawing runes with their controller.
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Rootborn
Single-player alternative to GeneWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with GeneWorld.
A cozy action-platformer with an open world that, of course, 99% of players will pirate. And in the end, all the nonlinear story, filled with battles, building, entertainment, and much more... the developer did it all for free.
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BABEL
Single-player alternative to GeneWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with GeneWorld.
Babel is a 2.5D action adventure game in a meta-apocalyptic world, built from the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Giuseppe Arcimboldo and other visionary masters