Single-player games like Prisoner 518
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Prisoner 518, 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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Emiline: The Ghost of White Willow
Single-player alternative to Prisoner 518 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Prisoner 518.
A gothic horror with intense spine chilling atmosphere find yourself trapped in the unrelenting haunts of White Willow Manor Hall. Find a way out or perish at the hands of a sinister family of Victorian apparitions.
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Synthesis Universe -Episode 00-
Single-player alternative to Prisoner 518 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prisoner 518.
Welcome to Synthesis Universe, the host of a musical civilization, their technology is music. -Story- mixes harmonics and aesthetics Every notes, every beat is alive and surrounds you.
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HINGE VR
Single-player alternative to Prisoner 518 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Prisoner 518.
HINGE is a psychological horror VR adventure. You suddenly find yourself in an abandoned skyscraper, devoid of all your senses and memories. The laws of physics are distorted, and time has collapsed. The only way out is to step into the terrifying unknown and piece together the fragmented clues
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Marlene Betwixt
Single-player alternative to Prisoner 518 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prisoner 518.
Marlene is a tense and immersive psychological horror story in which you star as the protagonist Ewan Brody. Ewan is on his way to visit his estranged sister at her remote cottage after hearing the news that his Niece Marlene has gone missing or possibly something worse. . .
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Virtual Virtual Reality
Single-player alternative to Prisoner 518 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prisoner 518.
A game about VR, AI, and our collective sci-fi fever dreams. In a future where AI has transformed society, can humans still find purpose? Find out with Activitude, a service that lets humans aid AI clients in increasingly curious ways.
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The Utility Room
Single-player alternative to Prisoner 518 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prisoner 518.
This VR Journey takes you to the 'behind the scenes' of the Universe. Beyond a door lies a barren landscape inhabited by strange rocky heads. Here, the maintenance and heavy lifting required keeps existence stable and temporal. You are a tourist. Don't do anything foolish.
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Curious Cases
Single-player alternative to Prisoner 518 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prisoner 518.
For Desktop or VR! In this 3 chapter story, you play as a modern day legend, Detective Thomas Moore. He has solved more cases than one can count, where others hit dead-ends, he gets to work.
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Ghost Town
Single-player alternative to Prisoner 518 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Prisoner 518.
Ghost Town is a single player VR puzzle-adventure from the makers of The Room. London, 1983. Edith Penrose is a ghost hunter, busy exorcising her way through the city's restless spirits. But after her brother goes missing Edith must draw upon her wits & supernatural talents to unravel the mystery.
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The Solus Project
Single-player alternative to Prisoner 518 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prisoner 518.
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to Prisoner 518 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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BioShock™
Single-player alternative to Prisoner 518 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.