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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Kaiju
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Anomalies.
Kaiju is a collection of 2D and 3D audio visualizations that uses your system audio to drive its effects in real time.
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ENCYCLE
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
A slightly hallucinogenic puzzle platformer.
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Squash Ball
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Welcome to Squash Ball, the ultimate idle clicker sandbox game with physics, themes, clicking stats, and a leveling system. Perfect for casual gamers and those who love to fidget with items digitally. With its colorful design and addicting gameplay, it's easy to pick up and hard to put down.
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Bonk'd Audio Visualizer
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Lightweight 3D audio visualizer with a minimalist, modern design.
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Conductor: Creative Joy Engine
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
Conductor is an audiovisual experience creation engine that encourages you to craft, save, and share funky environments with its vibrantly creative tool-set alongside all of your favorite media.
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Scooter Slayer
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Scooter Slayer is a musical racing rhythm arcade game that turns your or built-in songs into a unique track, the shape of which, as well as the speed of your car, will depend on the selected song.
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Intraquartz
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
INTRAQUARTZ is a multidimensional experimental maze puzzler where you control a microscopic mining rover inside extraterrestrial crystals.
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Go Up
Single-player alternative to Anomalies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
An atmospheric and esoteric exploration into darkness and creation. Unearth mysterious minigames and ascertain new methods of ascending ever upwards. In order for the number to go up, so must you!
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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.