Single-player games like Paratopic
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Paratopic, 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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No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paratopic.
A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.
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Mouthwashing
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paratopic.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
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Year Walk
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paratopic.
Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. Solve and decipher cryptic puzzles, listen for clues, and learn about mysterious folklore creatures in the built-in encyclopedia as you seek to foresee your future.
- 4
OK/NORMAL
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paratopic.
OK/NORMAL is a short, experimental third-person horror experience, inspired by early 3D console games of the 90's. Journey through a dark, disjointed, dreamlike dimension with your cloud companion! Remember a good diet, take your medicine, and you should be fine!
- 5
Visage
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paratopic.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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The Path
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paratopic.
There is one rule in the game. And it needs to be broken. There is one goal. And when you attain it, you die.
- 7
Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paratopic.
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.
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Infliction
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paratopic.
Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.
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Thirty Flights of Loving
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paratopic.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
- 10
SOMA
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paratopic.
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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Jalopy
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paratopic.
Build, repair, refuel and drive a dilapidated old car on a grand journey through the territories of the former Eastern bloc. Explore Germany, CSFR, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
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DUSK
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Paratopic.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
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Trespassers
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Paratopic.
Enjoy the nuclear apocalypse embodied by two idiots with TRESPASSERS! The fast paced shoot 'em up with some RPG flavour that let’s you enjoy that frantic button smashing vibe you are missing from the arcade machines.
- 14
Roman Sands RE:Build
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Paratopic.
A service industry adventure with an apocalyptic flavor. A manic genre mashup told across two broken realities. Step through the cracks: find your Exit.
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SCP
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paratopic.
Explore, craft, and survive in a post-apocalyptic world where SCP anomalies roam freely. Brace yourself for nightly assaults as SCP-049's twisted creations close in.
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Paratopic: Overdub
Single-player alternative to Paratopic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Paratopic.
Before the Backrooms ... before analog horror ... there were the tapes