Single-player games like Scientific project: Optic
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Scientific project: Optic, 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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An Exercise in Mortality - Chapter I
Single-player alternative to Scientific project: Optic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
Slip into the role of a detective and find out why a seemingly peaceful village suddenly has to hold a funeral every other day. To solve the mysteries, act as the perpetrator and simulate the crimes. Left completely to your own devices, it’s up to you to prove your ingenuity and wit.
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Newton's Fourth Law
Single-player alternative to Scientific project: Optic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
Fight against brain-rot in this story-driven educational physics puzzle game. You will need to learn and apply high school physics concepts to solve increasingly challenging problems and uncover a galaxy spanning plot. When you have finished, you will be able to take a college level physics course.
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Quant
Single-player alternative to Scientific project: Optic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
Quant is a colorful adventure game, that will teach you Quantum Physics! Follow Atom, in the quest for independence. Guided by Professor Svobodan Randov, he will uncover his Quantum powers, and free himself from the oppressing world!
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Dofamine
Single-player alternative to Scientific project: Optic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
You must explore the labyrinth of riddles and investigate the apocalyptic event at the research facility following the experiments with the Higgs boson, or “the God particle”.
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My Gods Hate Me
Single-player alternative to Scientific project: Optic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
Escape room, puzzle box, first person adventure game where you explore a mysterious island and summon its Gods.
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Looking For Fael
Single-player alternative to Scientific project: Optic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
Hello, this is Fael... Listen, this is going to sound strange, but... I think I'm lost in the apartment. Right now... I... I don't know where I am. Can you come and help me?
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Néro & Sci ∫ Integral Edition
Single-player alternative to Scientific project: Optic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
What if mathematics became a playground anyone could enjoy? Explore a colorful puzzle-platformer where observation, experimentation, and logic are the keys to solving every puzzle, alone or with a friend.
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The Talos Principle 2
Single-player alternative to Scientific project: Optic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.