Single-player games like Archimedes
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Archimedes, 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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Welcome to the Game
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
Welcome to the Game is a creepy horror/puzzle game that takes you into the world of the Deep Web. Explore the Deep Web with the sole purpose of trying to find a Red Room, an online service / website that allows you to see and participate in interactive torture and murder.
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GHOUL
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
What would you say regarding what you have been through; happenstance, or result of your actions ? We can not expect good things to happen to a thief who works with contracts, but this time what she will experience is even different from what you imagine.
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Pony Island
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
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Welcome to the Game II
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
Welcome to the Game II is an atmospheric horror / strategy / puzzle game that takes you into the world of the deep web in search of the shadow web. Play as an investigative reporter trying to solve a case of a mysterious woman broadcasting for help as masked men are on the hunt to kill her.
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Replica
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.
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Bulb Boy
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows. Gather the courage and use his glass head to save everything he loves.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Mu Complex
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets. But beware , you seem not to be alone and what you will discover could change the world ...
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Emily is Away
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
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Utopia
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
Utopia is a relaxing city builder strategy game with puzzle elements.
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The Thing from Nowhere
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".
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YOU ARE THE MONSTER
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Ever wanted to be a giant monster rampaging through a city? Experience mindless chaos as you destroy all in your path, earning new abilities, new monsters and new ways to wreak havoc.
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The Basilisk
Single-player alternative to Archimedes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Archimedes.
The Basilisk is a genre-swapping horror platformer that focuses on you, a supercomputer, as the last hope to save mankind from an unknown virus. If you suffer from mental health issues, play at your own risk.