Single-player games like The Gateway Trilogy
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Gateway Trilogy, 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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The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
Single-player alternative to The Gateway Trilogy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gateway Trilogy.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
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Machinarium
Single-player alternative to The Gateway Trilogy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gateway Trilogy.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
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The Bridge
Single-player alternative to The Gateway Trilogy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gateway Trilogy.
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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Oneiros
Single-player alternative to The Gateway Trilogy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gateway Trilogy.
Will you be able to break the vicious circle? Can you regain control? Experience the surreal adventure filled with many puzzles and psychedelic visions.
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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to The Gateway Trilogy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gateway Trilogy.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
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Rusty Lake: Roots
Single-player alternative to The Gateway Trilogy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gateway Trilogy.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
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Samorost 3
Single-player alternative to The Gateway Trilogy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gateway Trilogy.
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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Kairo
Single-player alternative to The Gateway Trilogy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gateway Trilogy.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.