Single-player games like Evil Inside
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Evil Inside, 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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Evil Inside - Prologue
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Inside.
Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.
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Don't Be Afraid
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Inside.
Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…
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GET EVEN
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Evil Inside.
Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.
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Luto
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Inside.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Inside.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
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Martha Is Dead
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Inside.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Evil Inside.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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Under: Depths of Fear
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Inside.
Enter the mind of traumatized WW1 veteran Alexander Dockter and experience the terrorizing nightmare of trying to escape a sinking ocean liner while being haunted by the most terrifying entities you’ve ever come across.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Inside.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Phasmophobia
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Evil Inside.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
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INQUIR P.T.
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Inside.
A post-apocalyptic story-based action adventure game. Fully customizable weapons and a high mobility character. Zombie horde mode and full of action, blood, brutality.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Evil Inside.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Farlands
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Evil Inside.
Congratulations, you’ve bought your own planet! An agrarian rock at the edge of the galaxy that, for some reason, was practically being given away for free. So the time has come to leave your hectic, stressful life in an overcrowded metropolis for a more rural and rewarding life.
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Caveman Warriors
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Inside.
Jump back in time and free your inner caveman. Smash heads in this local cooperative platformer game. Play solo or team up with up to 4 players. Inspired by games like New Super Mario, Joe & Mac, Metal Slug and Trine.
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Piwall
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Evil Inside.
Play a neon pinball machine in the arcade room and take a look at the released and upcoming JanduSoft games.
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Indiecalypse
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Inside.
Experience the REAL LIFE OF AN INDIE GAME DEVELOPER through one of the 3 characters of the game. An artist, a programmer or a Musician. Discover how each of the characters' personalities degenerates THROUGH DARK HUMOR MINI-GAMES. Because making videogames is not easy.
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Mystic Fate
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Inside.
Help young Aris to solve the mystery of the fall of Asfand and It’s guild of alchemists, avenge the death of her brother, discover the limits of her powers all of that and more inside a 3D voxel action adventure game where you control weapons made of metal.
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Scholar's Mate
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Inside.
Scholar's Mate is an immersive first-person horror Escape Room experience that puts you in the shoes of Judith, a young woman who wakes up in the gloomy facilities of a psychiatric hospital.
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Scholar's Mate - First Move
Single-player alternative to Evil Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Evil Inside.
Scholar's Mate First Move is a first-person horror experience in a psychiatric hospital. Use your wits to escape from this sinister place.