Single-player games like Replica
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Replica, 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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Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
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Papers, Please
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
Uncover the dark secrets of Wester Drumlins and confront a new evil in a thrilling found-phone mystery from the award-winning creators of Sara Is Missing and SIMULACRA.
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Beholder
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
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Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
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Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Replica.
Explore the social life of Laura in this spiritual sequel to A Normal Lost Phone.
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SIMULACRA 2
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Replica.
A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
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Into The Matrix
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
"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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SIMULACRA
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
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Who's Lila?
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
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The Dilemma
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
Step into a psychological thriller and mystery adventure that will challenge your mind! Face fear and uncertainty in three labyrinths, where each step reveals secrets and puzzles that lead you deeper into a maze. Walk the fine line between reality and imagination.
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To the Moon
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
- 16

Please, Don’t Touch Anything
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Replica.
A brain-racking game about bathroom breaks, screwdrivers and nuclear explosions.
- 17

No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
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Legal Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
Legal Dungeon is a game about organizing Police Investigation Documents. The player must review and provide an Investigation Verdict on reports ranging from petty theft to murder, in eight different criminal cases. Weigh the value of people’s lives to unlock all the collectables.
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The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Replica.
The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.
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Rabbit Hole 3D: Steam Edition
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Replica.
Rabbit Hole 3D: Steam Edition is a minimalistic retro puzzle game. The game features 3D word puzzles based on Chapter 1 of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Players must navigate through keywords from the book’s initial chapter.
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RETSNOM
Single-player alternative to Replica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Replica.
RETSNOM is an inventive pixel art puzzle platformer that allows player to break the map by mirroring sections of the level, and rearranging it on the fly to save a sick daughter.