Single-player games like Anomalies
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Anomalies, 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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0°N 0°W
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Ready for a wild trip of psychedelic sights and sounds? 0°N 0°W is a chill, first-person walking sim for everyone, where each run is a fresh adventure!
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The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Anomalies.
The goal of the game is to find your favourite room in the catacombs.
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Samorost 3
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
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100 hidden snails
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Hidden object game in a surreal style. Extremely hard!
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Xenosensory
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
Xenosensory is a short incremental game with horror themes. Use your cursor to bust Xenos and save convicts then spend your research points on skill tree upgrades, actions, gadgets, and uncover the true horrifying nature of this space station nightmare.
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Solar 2
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.
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Idle Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Idle Tower Defense is a game where you control a single tower to fight off hordes of enemies. No randomization. Choose from a variety of modules to create unique builds and upgrade modules and survive endless waves.
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Papetura
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
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Islands of the Caliph
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Anomalies.
Islands of the Caliph is an old-school inspired action RPG based on Middle Eastern folklore and Islamic spiritual tradition. A KEYBOARD ONLY 1980s style Dungeon Crawler with an open world.
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Star Explorers
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
Planets, aliens, resources, upgrades, caves, mapping & documenting star systems ... seek a new home for the human race. An all-inclusive (admittedly janky) procedural space-sim made by solo developer Schmidt Workshops.
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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Anomalies.
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
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Rocket Blasters
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Rocket Blasters is a fast paced, action packed shoot-em-up set during the invasion of the Dread Pizza Armada. Its hand-drawn art gives it a unique style. Blowing stuff up has never been so fun!
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Paradox Vector
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Anomalies.
Explore impossible mazes while battling the Ancient Ones and their bio-mechanical servitors in this retro first-person, Lovecraft inspired shooter. Paradox Vector's graphics are inspired by the old-school vector graphics games of the early 1980's.
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Aberration Analyst
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
Work strange hours ... analyze incomplete and unreliable information ... save the world from monsters, and shut down their means of access in this experimental, point-and-click supernatural strategy simulator.