Single-player games like Recursed
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Recursed, 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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Offspring Fling!
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recursed.
Offspring Fling is a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced all of her children.
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Braid
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Recursed.
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
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Escape Goat 2
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Recursed.
Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer game where you use machinery, the environment, and a friendly mouse to progress through a dungeon.
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The Bridge
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recursed.
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
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Stephen's Sausage Roll
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Recursed.
A simple 3d puzzle game.
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FEZ
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Recursed.
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.
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Circa Infinity
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Recursed.
Circa Infinity is a brain-melting circular platformer by Kenny Sun, with a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Jack + Jim Fay.
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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recursed.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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Patrick's Parabox
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Recursed.
A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recursed.
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.
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Baba Is You
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Recursed.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
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Void Stranger
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recursed.
Place your faith and embrace the Void.
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Puzzle One
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Recursed.
Puzzle One is an extremely difficult casual permutation puzzle sandbox.
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Only Sliding
Single-player alternative to Recursed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Recursed.
A puzzle game with one mechanic (sliding).