Single-player games like Swallow The Blue
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Swallow The Blue, 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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Enigma of Fear
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
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Her Story
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Swallow The Blue.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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Chernobylite Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
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Crime O'Clock
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Swallow The Blue.
Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!
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Bleak Faith: Forsaken
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.
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Introvert: A Teenager Simulator
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
One of the new guys in school tells you he’s going to shoot up the school if he doesn’t make friends in 5 days. Discover the decisions, people, situations you will encounter while playing and trying to make friends of your own and living your own life.
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He Needs His Medicine
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
You have been dispatched for a 911 call. From the moment you step inside the apartment, you realize something is really wrong with the place. You are gonna make Him the last dosage. He needs his medicine.
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Life On A Pizza
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
You are no longer the eater; you are the eaten. Play as toppings trying to survive on a pizza from the hungry Jaw biting its way to you and the ants pushing you to your delicious death. Customize the pizza, pick a mode and your topping, then hop in this hysterical party or solo game.
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How We Got Here
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
You wake up on a floating island with no idea how you got there. Find ways to reach new and strange islands and meet other survivors all while uncovering the story of how you all got there.
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Human Apocalypse - Reverse Horror Zombie Indie RPG Adventure
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
A new virus is turning people into brain eating machines, etc. You know the rest. A cure has been found and all the infected people are now normal humans again. What is the problem then? Their skin color is still green. Play as an Ex-Zombie.
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Flesh Water
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
This is your last day as a worker for a pet feeding service, and depending on how the day goes, your life. Prepare the final meal for a client's odd pet that lives in an abandoned pool all while trying to make it out safely and avoid mistakes.
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Human Apocalypse: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Swallow The Blue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swallow The Blue.
A new virus is turning people into brain eating machines, etc. You know the rest. A cure has been found and all the infected people are now normal humans again. What is the problem then? Their skin color is still green. Play as an Ex-Zombie.