Single-player games like Strangeland
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Strangeland, 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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Room 337
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strangeland.
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
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Start Running
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strangeland.
A horror point and click game where choices matter about trying to do your final marathon training run.
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Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strangeland.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
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The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strangeland.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
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I Did Not Buy This Ticket
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strangeland.
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
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Bad Dream: Coma
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strangeland.
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
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INDIKA
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strangeland.
Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.
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SHUT IN
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strangeland.
SHUT IN is a dark comedy/psychological horror adventure game which explores depression and isolation by trapping you inside your own house. Explore a hostile home, solve puzzles, and withstand sarcasm from a rude and unreliable narrator. Idiot.
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Max Payne
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
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Primordia
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strangeland.
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
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Alan Wake
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strangeland.
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strangeland.
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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Until I Have You
Single-player alternative to Strangeland — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
If you could save someone, how much of yourself would you be willing to sacrifice?Until I Have You aims to recount a thrilling story of regret, love, corruption, and things gone haywire, under the strong, vibrant neon lights of a metropolitan city that just doesn't give a damn.