Single-player games like Neironaut
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Neironaut, 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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Mandated Fate
Single-player alternative to Neironaut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Neironaut.
A dystopian future-noir social thriller. As an Imperial Inspector, navigate a towering technocratic empire where loyalty is survival. Investigate secrets, manipulate factions, and make brutal moral choices. In this alternate history, will you uphold the regime or subvert the truth?
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Absolutes Akestas Tournament
Single-player alternative to Neironaut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Neironaut.
A story-driven RPG combat tournament for the throne, glory, and the fate of the world—unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. Experience a dark, dramatic world caught between honor and betrayal, where every decision has consequences and your chosen paths shape the conflict.
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Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King
Single-player alternative to Neironaut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Neironaut.
Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.
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Welcome to Lightford
Single-player alternative to Neironaut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Neironaut.
Investigate a supernatural conspiracy in a 90s town hiding something far worse than secrets. Travel between 1990 and its ruined 1995 future, photograph anomalies, decode entities, and survive a town that doesn't want you here. Think outside the box. Every problem has more than one solution.
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Last Night Last Call
Single-player alternative to Neironaut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Neironaut.
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Single-player alternative to Neironaut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Neironaut.
Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.
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Pecaminosa
Single-player alternative to Neironaut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Neironaut.
Activate your detective skills in this noir-influenced police action RPG. Grab your gun and prepare to face the strangest case of John Souza's career by helping the ghost of a dead mobster get "justice". Hit the streets in search of intel, befriend the scum and beat those who will try to stop you.
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Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora
Single-player alternative to Neironaut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Neironaut.
You’re the Private Investigator on a string of grisly murders, scouring for clues in a 3D side-scrolling world. Grab your fedora and revolver - in Hot Tin Roof you’re on the case! Dive into a noir mystery and become Emma Jones, the only PI partnered to a cat named Franky.
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Come Back Home Please
Single-player alternative to Neironaut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Neironaut.
Entrusted with a difficult task, begin an incredible adventure in the world of Come Back Home Please!