Single-player games like Eliza
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Eliza, 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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Dance of the Butterflies
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
Your twin sister is missing. Under her name, you uncover a deadly system where 50 people compete for a Wish powerful enough to change anything. The price of entry is a piece of yourself, signed away in a contract. Survive. Find her. And try not to lose yourself to the people you meet along the way.
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If Found...
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.
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A Summer with the Shiba Inu
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
Syd the Shiba Inu quits her job in Canine-da, and goes to fight other dogs on an Island. What could go wrong? Your choices matter - there are multiple drastic ways to change the fate of Shiba Island, with 10+ variants depending on how you treat the dogs you meet along the way.
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Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
Work as a body modification consultant in a dystopian future. Talk to clients, make recommendations, and decide how much to upsell them. Balance helping others with earning enough to save your sick rabbit. Make decisions and change lives.
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Stranding
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
A psychological narrative dating sim visual novel. You play as Yu Xiao, an unemployed artist, searching for a way out amid the constant pull of CPTSD. You will make decisions at three crossroads, leading to different romantic relationships and endings.
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Univocity
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
Univocity is a short cyberpunk visual novel wrapped in neon aesthetics with a lush atmospheric soundtrack, featuring a deep and emotional conversation between two people about taking down a global tech monopoly.
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REDLINE — Strings of Fate
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
A sci-fi otome game where your choices shape love — and the future of society.
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Open Spaces SE
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
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SHENZHEN I/O
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
- 11
TIS-100
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
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Infinifactory
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
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EXAPUNKS
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
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Last Call BBS
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!
- 16
The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
Single-player alternative to Eliza — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eliza.
The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection is here! Inside you will find all seven Zachtronics solitaire games, updated with new 4K graphics, plus one brand new Tarot-themed solitaire variant only available here.