Single-player games like Faraway: Puzzle Escape
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Faraway: Puzzle Escape, 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 Button Effect
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Every button has a purpose. In this short, minimalist first-person puzzler you explore a dense, interwoven architecture – a museum, full of hidden connections and spatial insights.
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Door3:Insignia
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Symbols have never had such an impact on a person’s fate. Meet a new part of a fascinating mystical doors puzzle. This time you will have to face the ruins of the past, hiding the secret of a vanished civilization.
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The Academy: The First Riddle
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
The Academy is a puzzle-packed adventure set in a school filled with mystery. Leave your mark on Arbor's Academy and find out why it only welcomes the best and the brightest.
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Faraway: Jungle Escape
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Faraway: Jungle Escape is a relaxing adventure escape game full of new puzzles to solve. The second sequel of the Faraway trilogy.
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Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Gordian Rooms: A Curious Heritage is a Victorian escape game, where you solve various puzzles in your late uncle’s mansion in the hope of obtaining his legacy.
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Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Welcome to Regilus, a paradise planet turned into a popular tourist destination! But your holiday adventure soon turned into a nightmare. Stranded on an alien planet you need to find your way out. Remember though, not everything here is as it seems.
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Memorrha
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.
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Riven
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
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Escape Simulator
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.
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Escape Simulator 2
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Sequel to the best-selling escape room game, brings a fresh take on first-person puzzles with a variety of new rooms to explore solo or with friends. Solve intricate puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, or craft your own escape rooms with Room Editor 2.0.
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SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Like a bastard child of Quake 3 and Super Meat Boy, SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell is truly hardcore and focuses on speed and fast reaction.
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Cats in Time
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
A relaxing puzzle game in which you explore 3D dioramas, solve puzzles and save cats lost in time! Crazy, right?!
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Faraway: Arctic Escape
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Faraway: Arctic Escape is a relaxing adventure escape game full of new puzzles to solve. The final sequel of the Faraway trilogy.
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SURVIVAL IN THE BACKROOMS
Single-player alternative to Faraway: Puzzle Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Survival In The Backrooms is an atmospheric horror game in which you will wander for a long time through surreal corridors and rooms in search of a way out. Immerse yourself in this mysterious world and try not to become prey for its inhabitants.