Single-player games like Smile
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Smile, 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
- 1
Deep Sleep: The Beggining
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Smile.
Discover the truth about winderfield, the ghost town and solve the mysteries.
- 2
Survive the Jurassic
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Smile.
You're placed in a small, secluded house hidden deep within a dense jungle teeming with danger. The calm is short-lived as the ground shakes and distant roars grow louder—dinosaurs are closing in. Your only chance is to navigate the confined space, avoid detection!
- 3
Fading Light VR: Antiworld
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Smile.
The post-war world of nuclear explosion has trapped you in a dark circulated antiworld. Armed only with a faint flashlight and antimatter collector, you have to generate enough energy and hold on till the first sight of the morning light. Hurry, but be careful, it's rumored that you are not alone...
- 4
Don't Leave
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Smile.
Welcome to a mysterious adventure where justice and the supernatural intertwine! Judge Harlan, in his old country cottage, faces a mysterious presence after his mother's sudden departure. Explore justice's limits in this extraordinary tale!
- 5
Spectral Scream
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Smile.
Spectral Scream is a 1-4 player cooperative horror exploration game. Are you ready to face death in the maw of purgatory? Your goal is to find key items in each chapter and retrieve the orb. But be careful! Threatening and vicious creatures await you at every stage.
- 6
Backrooms: Lost Tape
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile.
You work in the cinema as an usher and accidentally fell into the Backrooms, now being trapped, needing to unravel the mysteries of the yellow rooms in order to get out of this place, but be careful, there are entities that will be in your way.
- 7
There's Something In The Ice
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile.
In 2015, three scientists at the Antarctic research station "Zarya" drilled into the ice to a depth of 2 kilometers and took samples for study... It seems that what they found was not at all what they were looking for...
- 8
Agonize
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile.
Once a mad scientist's lab, now an abandoned manor haunted by miscreations. Work as a 1-4 player team in this online co-op, psychological horror game and discover what lurks within. Find a cure before it's too late...