Single-player games like Brutalism
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Brutalism, 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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Magrunner: Dark Pulse
Single-player alternative to Brutalism — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brutalism.
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, penned by H.P. Lovecraft. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles.
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Magnetic: Cage Closed
Single-player alternative to Brutalism — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brutalism.
Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first person puzzle game where the player manipulates magnetic forces to accomplish their goals. The mechanics are focused around a single tool: The Magnet Gun which allows you to create electromagnetic fields with either positive or negative charges.
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Prodeus
Single-player alternative to Brutalism — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brutalism.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Brutalism — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brutalism.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Brutalism — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Brutalism.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Eldritch
Single-player alternative to Brutalism — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brutalism.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Brutalism — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brutalism.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Brutalism — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brutalism.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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Dread X Collection 5
Single-player alternative to Brutalism — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Brutalism.
A horror anthology in the Dread X Collection series. Featuring 12 new games from up-and-comers along with veterans, all wrapped up in an old, run down party venue that may be hiding more than it's letting on...
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Sylvio
Single-player alternative to Brutalism — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutalism.
Sylvio is a psychological horror game set in a tranquil, disturbing atmosphere. Help ghost recorder Juliette Waters face an evil curse and a wicked family cult with her microphone and the voices of the dead.
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Sylvio 2
Single-player alternative to Brutalism — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Brutalism.
All Juliette ever wanted was to go back home. With the help of her ghost recording equipment she makes her way through flooded landscapes, buried houses and abandoned apartments. This is calm psychological horror with emphasis on atmosphere.
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Sylvio: Black Waters
Single-player alternative to Brutalism — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Brutalism.
Stranded on a desolate planet, decode the whispers of the dead to survive in an enthralling atmospheric exploration horror.