Single-player games like Elsewhere
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Elsewhere, 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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Alien Cartographer
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elsewhere.
Alien Cartographer is a Minesweeper-like logic deduction puzzle game, where the player has to identify various buildings on a hexagonal grid using environmental hints and the strict rules of their architecture.
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NUMTATE
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elsewhere.
NUMTATE is a challenging grid based puzzle game in which you move blocks around by rotating, pushing and attracting them to solve numeric puzzles.
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Attkand
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elsewhere.
ÅTTKAND is a minimalist color puzzle. Tap a chip to see the reaction wave around the board. Use the special chips to change the waves. Turn all the chips to the same color to win.
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CUBOID
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elsewhere.
CUBOID is a challenging spatial puzzle game with minimalist design, where you progress through a labyrinth of levels using a unique mechanic of merging with world blocks.
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Jelly Is Sticky
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elsewhere.
Explore a world of colorful jelly blocks that can be deformed and stuck together. Use them in surprising, unexpected ways to build clever contraptions and solve delightful puzzles.
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CIPHER ZERO
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elsewhere.
A minimalist logic game. Can you solve for 𝒙?
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Unlock The King
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Elsewhere.
An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.
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Volume
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elsewhere.
Pure stealth action and infinite level creation from the award-winning studio behind Thomas Was Alone. Enter the Volume to halt Gisborne Industries' corruption and train the masses to rob from the rich.