Single-player games like Relicta
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Relicta, 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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Q.U.B.E. 2
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Relicta.
Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.
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Magnetic: Cage Closed
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Relicta.
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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Portal
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Relicta.
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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Lightmatter
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Relicta.
A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.
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The Entropy Centre
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Relicta.
Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.
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Superliminal
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Relicta.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
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The Turing Test
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Relicta.
The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.
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The Talos Principle 2
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Relicta.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Relicta.
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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Magrunner: Dark Pulse
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Relicta.
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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Prince of Persia®
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Relicta.
The critically acclaimed Prince of Persia® franchise returns for the first time on next-generation platforms with an all-new epic journey. Built by the same award-winning Ubisoft Montreal studio that created Assassin's Creed™, Prince of Persia has been in development for over three years to deliver a whole new action-adventure gaming...
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Relicta.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Myst
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Relicta.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™
Single-player alternative to Relicta — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Relicta.
Enter the dark underworld of Prince of Persia Warrior Within, the sword-slashing sequel to the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™. Hunted by Dahaka, an immortal incarnation of Fate seeking divine retribution, the Prince embarks upon a path of both carnage and mystery to defy his preordained death.