Single-player games like The Outlast Trials
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to The Outlast Trials, 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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Outlast
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outlast Trials.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Wonhon: The Beginning
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outlast Trials.
A paranormal stealth-action and tactics game about a young Korean girl who was killed in a military conflict and returned from the dead with the ability to turn into a ghost and possess living creatures to exact her revenge.
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CRYO
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outlast Trials.
CRYO is a multiplayer co-op survival horror for 1-4 players. You have been deployed by your company to various locations around the Antarctic due to communication issues. What awaits you in these dark, remote regions is far more sinister than a technical fault...
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Deathground
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outlast Trials.
A 1-4 player co-op horror game that throws you into a desperate fight for survival against deadly dinosaurs. Run, hide and work together to complete missions and uncover the secrets buried within the abandoned AEON research facility. Can you and your friends make it out alive?
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Paranormal Cleanup
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outlast Trials.
Clock in for the worst cleaning shift of your life: Unclog nasty toilets and scrub ectoplasm in this 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Get the job done and don't get caught by the entities hunting you!
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Outlast Trials.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Ghostbane
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outlast Trials.
Ghostbane, is a Co-Op horror game for 1-4 players. Detect paranormal activity, collect evidence of ghosts, hunt ghosts by rituals, and conduct detailed investigations about ghosts in your main base.
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NOROI KAGO: the Grudged Domain
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outlast Trials.
NOROI KAGO: the Grudged Domain is a four-player co-op survival horror game based on "Yokai", supernatural beings from Japanese folklore. Trapped in a cursed domain, you and your companions must work together to endure the curse and find a way to escape, all the while hiding from the roaming yokai.
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Manhunt
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Outlast Trials.
You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outlast Trials.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Outlast 2
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outlast Trials.
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.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outlast Trials.
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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The Evil Within 2
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outlast Trials.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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Phasmophobia
Single-player alternative to The Outlast Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outlast Trials.
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.