Single-player games like Alter Animus
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Alter Animus, 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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The Backworld
Single-player alternative to Alter Animus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Alter Animus.
Slip between the cracks of reality into a world where danger awaits at every turn. Survive with strategy, battling when necessary or fleeing when the odds are stacked against you. Collect strange items, unlock new abilities, and recruit unique companions. Forge your own path; every choice matters.
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Vagrant Shifter
Single-player alternative to Alter Animus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Alter Animus.
An RPG about Life, Death, and all that we leave behind...
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Second Odium
Single-player alternative to Alter Animus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Alter Animus.
Seek purpose while managing a plethora of various afflictions and personality traits in hopes to survive an endless barrage of nightmarish threats that continuously seek to consume your mind.
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Empty Village (Part 1)
Single-player alternative to Alter Animus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Alter Animus.
A supernatural curse, or a product of distorted science? Trace the unknown entity. Within a warped reality, you must uncover the hidden side of forbidden truths using only the arrow keys and Enter."
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Carnosis
Single-player alternative to Alter Animus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Alter Animus.
Carnosis is a horror dungeon crawler set in a grimdark empire filled with mutated monstrosities and war machines. Sever enemy limbs, steal the flesh of defeated foes, and chain devastating status combos to butcher your way to the emperor.
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LISA: The Painful
Single-player alternative to Alter Animus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Alter Animus.
The miserable journey of a broken man...
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Chiasmus
Single-player alternative to Alter Animus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Alter Animus.
Viktor finds himself in a mysterious apartment with no way out. He discovers an amazing ability to move between two parallel worlds. This discovery helps him piece together the scattered fragments of what is happening and find the key to solving the mystery.
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By Your Name
Single-player alternative to Alter Animus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Alter Animus.
BY YOUR NAME is a nonlinear psychological thriller about exploring a cursed mansion, recovering other people’s memories, and uncovering the lives of those whose names nearly vanished along with their past. Explore the house. Return the names. And decide how this story should end.