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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 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2023ActionAdventure8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Synthesis Universe -Episode 00- — Steam game cover

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    HINGE VR — Steam game cover

    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

    2020ActionAdventureRPG19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Marlene Betwixt — Steam game cover

    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. . .

    2016ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Virtual Virtual Reality — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018IndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Utility Room — Steam game cover

    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.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Curious Cases — Steam game cover

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ghost Town — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025Adventure24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Solus Project — Steam game cover

    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...

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Half-Life — Steam game cover

    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.

    1998Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    BioShock™ — Steam game cover

    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.

    2007ActionRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →