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Single-player games like Education

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Education, 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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    Now You See - A Hand Painted Horror Adventure — Steam game cover

    Now You See - A Hand Painted Horror Adventure

    Single-player alternative to Education — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Education.

    NoW YoU SEE is a story driven, first-person, point & click, horror adventure. You must escape!!! Explore the house, solve fiendish puzzles, uncover horrible secrets and get ready to meet the family. STORY. PUZZLES. GORE.

    2019IndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Agony — Steam game cover

    Agony

    Single-player alternative to Education — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Education.

    Agony is a first-person, survival horror set in hell. You will begin your journey as a tormented soul within the depths of hell without any memories about your past. The special ability to control people on your path, and possess demons, gives you the measures to survive.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Amnesia: The Dark Descent — Steam game cover

    Amnesia: The Dark Descent

    Single-player alternative to Education — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Education.

    Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

    2010ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Outlast 2 — Steam game cover

    Outlast 2

    Single-player alternative to Education — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Education.

    Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Someday You'll Return — Steam game cover

    Someday You'll Return

    Single-player alternative to Education — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Education.

    How far would you go if your daughter never came back home? Someday You'll Return is a first-person 3D story-driven psychological horror game about a desperate search for a missing daughter deep in the woods where you swore you'd never return to.

    2020IndieAdventureDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gray Dawn — Steam game cover

    Gray Dawn

    Single-player alternative to Education — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Education.

    Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.

    2018IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Luto — Steam game cover

    Luto

    Single-player alternative to Education — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Education.

    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.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs — Steam game cover

    Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

    Single-player alternative to Education — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Education.

    From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →