Single-player games like The Mercury Man
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to The Mercury Man, 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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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Mercury Man.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mercury Man.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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Kusan: City of Wolves
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Mercury Man.
Kusan: City of Wolves is a high-octane hardcore top-down shooter where players fight through a brutal urban jungle ruled by gunfire and corruption to save Haru — a girl fitted with a city-grade atomic weapon.
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Gamedec - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mercury Man.
Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.
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RUINER
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Mercury Man.
RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.
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State of Mind
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mercury Man.
State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.
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Katana ZERO
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Mercury Man.
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
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Detroit: Become Human
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Mercury Man.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
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Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Mercury Man.
Experience once again the iconic Rail Shooter released for Arcade back in 1987, now reinterpreted in a regular or VR version. The game captures the essence of the original game, immersing you in an action-packed atmosphere reminiscent of the non-stop action films of the 1980s.
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The Underground Man
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mercury Man.
Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.
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CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Mercury Man.
1986. Chernobyl disaster. The story that you will see in the game resembles a delusional dream of a man exhausted by radiation. But whether it is nonsense or the nightmarish reality of the Soviet era – you decide.
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CALL OF LDPR
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Mercury Man.
I was an ordinary kid from Egorievsk and my life was going bad. But everything changed one fine moment, when my mate, nicknamed Ponos and i, were sucking beer on the bars. LDPR branch was opened in our yard.I also decided that since I can't do anything except jerk off, it's time to go into politics.
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Kazakh Drive
Single-player alternative to The Mercury Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Mercury Man.
You're a simple Kazakh driver. Take a trip along the highway that cuts through the gloomy landscapes of Central Asia full of Eastern wisdom. And be careful.