Single-player games like Hollow Steps
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Hollow Steps, 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 Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
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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The Station
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
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The Witness
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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Homesick
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
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The Room 4: Old Sins
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Hollow Steps.
The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?
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Door
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
You will have to face hundreds of different doors, and decide which one you should go to in order to get to the main secret. You have to open the doors in many locations of this world, each of which is dedicated to its type of doors.
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Drizzlepath: Genie
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
Walk as Lula, on the path you choose, as she journeys to discover the meaning of the Genie and fulfill her destiny.
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The Sojourn
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness. Think your way through dozens of puzzles as you traverse parallel worlds, awaken mysterious artifacts and overcome challenging obstacles on an unforgettable journey.
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Painted Memories
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
Painted Memories is an Action/Adventure game that you journey through using various equipment in your arsenal, such as a crossbow or a torch. You will encounter different creatures, bosses, puzzles and more!
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Dream Stone
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
You wake up and find yourself trapped in a dream. Only thing in your mind is to wake up. The key to wake up lies within 3 Dream Stones which are awaiting at the end of puzzles you encounter through the game in different dream chapters.
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Chaos Town
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hollow Steps.
Chaos Town is a top-down chaotic shooter game where everything is destructible!
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Deep Sorrow
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
Deep Sorrow is a horror/adventure game which leads you to a bunker and makes you feel desperate to get out.
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Light The Way
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
Light The Way is a first-person horror adventure game. It takes place in a storage house after your character is kidnapped by a stranger.
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Chaos Village
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hollow Steps.
Chaos Village is a top-down chaotic shooter game with various weapons, perks and power ups.
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Soul Valley
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
Soul Valley is a survival, text-reading, treasure hunting, story rich, walking simulator game.
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Slay The Bigies
Single-player alternative to Hollow Steps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Steps.
Slay The Bigies is an anime style hack'n slash action rpg game with randomized loot and inventory system.