Single-player games like Northern Lights
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Northern Lights, 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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ASTRAL
Single-player alternative to Northern Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
The future came. You'd think that means the apex of the progress and science, but no. After the epidemic spread all over the world in 2022, 95% of the whole population mutated into horrible creatures without any moral values or humanity and started hunting everything that moves. The planet became empty.
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Monochroma
Single-player alternative to Northern Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.
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Transient: Extended Edition
Single-player alternative to Northern Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Northern Lights.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
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Inner Chains
Single-player alternative to Northern Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Northern Lights.
An FPS horror game set in a surreal, dark and deadly biomechanical world never seen before. Humankind is just a small part of a hostile universe. Want to survive? Discover its secrets.
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Homesick
Single-player alternative to Northern Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Northern Lights.
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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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Northern Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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>observer_
Single-player alternative to Northern Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Northern Lights.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
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Year Walk
Single-player alternative to Northern Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Northern Lights.
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.
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A SECOND BEFORE US
Single-player alternative to Northern Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Northern Lights.
They have no names, only serial numbers. They have no freedom, no memories from the past. You are one of them. Explore the last center of civilization on a shattered Earth to understand what is really going on.
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BLIK
Single-player alternative to Northern Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
BLIK is a fascinating spatial first-person puzzle. You are a student at one of the best educational institutions in the world! Сomplete the study program course by solving all the puzzles and passing the final test! Be smart and diligent! Become the pride of the Academy!
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HANZ!
Single-player alternative to Northern Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
Fight with crowds of enemies, repel attacks with turrets, defeat invulnerable bosses in the new top-down shooter HANZ!