Single-player games like Cartonfall
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Cartonfall, 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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Time To Wake Up
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cartonfall.
You're stuck in a dream. Blink and change your surroundings to escape the shadows of your past.
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24H Stories: The Rule 7
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cartonfall.
Recently, people in Japan have been talking about an urban legend: a mysterious program is circulating on the internet. The person who activates this program must follow 7 rules within a week, or they will face punishment, even death. In 7 days, various maddening supernatural events will occur.
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Lightmatter
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cartonfall.
A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.
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迷离 Blurred
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cartonfall.
迷离是一款氛围感与沉浸感极强的第一人称恐怖解密射击游戏,几年前,一家人误入了一个神秘村落,几年后,这家人相继自杀。你受人委托前去调查这桩诡异迷离的凶案,在凶案地点,这里的煞气压的你喘不过气,并在深入的探索中发现了一个恐怖的真相。
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Stolen Life
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cartonfall.
Stolen Life is a first-person psychological horror game. While working late, you hear a sudden scream from a coworker. Rushing to investigate, you find everyone is gone. As you search for answers, you uncover hidden secrets in your home and discover your wife is not home.
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Reality Rifts
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cartonfall.
3D platformer with a portal gun! Solve puzzles, exciting levels, become a master of portal travel.
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Family curse
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cartonfall.
Family curse is a mystical horror from the first person with a frightening atmosphere. Immerse yourself in the intricate history of the Crouse family and find out the terrible secret of the people who died in the cursed house.
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The God Unit
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cartonfall.
The GoD Unit is a first-person physics-based puzzle game set in a near pre-apocalyptic future, featuring the mass manipulation ability and other familiar and beloved puzzle mechanics.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Shape of America: Episode One
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cartonfall.
Shape of America is a story-driven, non-linear, turn-based role-playing game about politics. The story is set the United States in the late 1990s, you are a young man who unwittingly finds himself tied up in all the important economic and political changes of the period.
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Cartonfall: Fortress - Defend Cardboard Castle
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cartonfall.
Build your own cardboard fort and defend it against swarms of enemies. Gather resources, craft weapons and set traps. Be creative, improvise and experiment to win.
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Cryospace - survival horror in space
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cartonfall.
You are not a soldier. Not a fighter. Just an ordinary maintenance guy. Yet you have to fight. And you are forced to run. But chiefly: you must help the frozen crew survive on a spaceship. You are the only one who can save others. You are made a hero against your will. You become a leader. A slayer.
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Cryospace: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Cartonfall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cartonfall.
You are not a soldier. Not a fighter. Just an ordinary maintenance guy. Yet you have to fight. And you are forced to run. But chiefly: you must help the frozen crew survive on a spaceship. You are the only one who can save others. You are made a hero against your will. You become a leader. A slayer.