Single-player games like Kohate
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Kohate, 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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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
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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Those Who Remain
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Kohate.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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The Persistence
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Kohate.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
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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The Subject
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
You have been taken prisoner and sold to a deep space testing facility. Upon arrival, you are fitted with a device forcing you to participate in their experiment. Released into a massive complex, the dark halls wind around testing rooms and conceal pieces to puzzles. There is no option but to comply.
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Kohate.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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The Mortuary Assistant
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
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Dread X Collection 5
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
A horror anthology in the Dread X Collection series. Featuring 12 new games from up-and-comers along with veterans, all wrapped up in an old, run down party venue that may be hiding more than it's letting on...
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Our Secret Below
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
Abducted with only four hours to live… Learn about your captor, use your knowledge to escape, end the cycle.
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Inner
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Kohate.
Face your subconscious in an ever-growing anthology of mini-games dealing with psychological and surreal concepts.
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Playable Archive
Single-player alternative to Kohate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
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