Single-player games like The Pale Beyond
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Pale Beyond, 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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Help Will Come Tomorrow
Single-player alternative to The Pale Beyond — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Pale Beyond.
In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.
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Upheaval
Single-player alternative to The Pale Beyond — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pale Beyond.
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
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Dead in Antares
Single-player alternative to The Pale Beyond — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Pale Beyond.
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
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Vagrus - The Riven Realms
Single-player alternative to The Pale Beyond — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Pale Beyond.
Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Accompanied by a hardy crew, you must trade, fight, and explore your way to success as the leader of a traveling company in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.
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AETHUS
Single-player alternative to The Pale Beyond — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Pale Beyond.
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
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Heading Out
Single-player alternative to The Pale Beyond — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Pale Beyond.
Flee your fear and carve your story. Blaze a trail across mythic American highways, where choices twist your tale and danger’s always in the rearview mirror. With roguelike routes, limited resources, and breakneck chases, this isn’t just a drive—it’s your legend in the making.
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Frostpunk 2
Single-player alternative to The Pale Beyond — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Pale Beyond.
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
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Cultist Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Pale Beyond — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Pale Beyond.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to The Pale Beyond — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Pale Beyond.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to The Pale Beyond — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Pale Beyond.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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Terror in the Corn
Single-player alternative to The Pale Beyond — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The witch’s ominous chanting echoes through the corn field, a rogues' gallery of deranged monsters is out for your blood, an eerie mist rolls in from worlds unknown... and you don’t even remember how you got here. Can you escape the Terror in the Corn?
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The Hearth and Harbour
Single-player alternative to The Pale Beyond — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Pale Beyond.
Transform a run-down restaurant and build a new life for yourself in this management RPG. Decide what kind of restaurant you want to create and what kind of person you want to be. As a storm brews outside, every choice you make has consequences.