Single-player games like 44 Minutes in Nightmare
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to 44 Minutes in Nightmare, 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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THE AEON FALL
Single-player alternative to 44 Minutes in Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with 44 Minutes in Nightmare.
Endless waves of 100,000 infected pour toward you. A brutally hard roguelike defense built on the Paradox of Progress: every advance raises the noise, and louder noise draws a deadlier swarm. Design your base, break through with one unit you control, and adapt each run. Survive a planet alone.
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Not The Robots
Single-player alternative to 44 Minutes in Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with 44 Minutes in Nightmare.
You are a robot in an office building. You have to eat furniture and not get caught. A mysterious story unfolds.Not The Robots is this year’s most exciting Roguelike Stealth Furniture Eating Simulator. It’s a game with random levels, permadeath, and the goal of eating furniture - which is also your stealth cover.
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Baldi's Basics Plus
Single-player alternative to 44 Minutes in Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with 44 Minutes in Nightmare.
Baldi's Basics® Plus is an active stealth roguelike that parodies cheap '90s edutainment with a subtle horror twist! Play Hide & Seek with Baldi as he chases you through procedurally generated levels while using your surroundings, items, and game knowledge to shift chaos in your favor.
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Monstrum
Single-player alternative to 44 Minutes in Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 44 Minutes in Nightmare.
Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.
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Heat Signature
Single-player alternative to 44 Minutes in Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with 44 Minutes in Nightmare.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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Void Bastards
Single-player alternative to 44 Minutes in Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with 44 Minutes in Nightmare.
Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?
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March of the Living
Single-player alternative to 44 Minutes in Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 44 Minutes in Nightmare.
Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
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Eldritch
Single-player alternative to 44 Minutes in Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 44 Minutes in Nightmare.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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Shadow Corridor
Single-player alternative to 44 Minutes in Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 44 Minutes in Nightmare.
Now on Steam, revamped with brand new content! Immerse yourself in the latest chapter of the popular, Japanese indie horror title, Kageroh: Shadow Corridor. Survive against the onslaught of horrors that lie in wait in eerie, traditional Japanese locales that change with every playthrough.
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Granny
Single-player alternative to 44 Minutes in Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 44 Minutes in Nightmare.
You have to escape Granny`s house...You have five days...
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NEKOTO
Single-player alternative to 44 Minutes in Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 44 Minutes in Nightmare.
Customize your beloved cat in detail and live together! Enhance your life with your cat by working as a lost cat finder. When you go out with your cat, it collects treasures. Each cat in the town has unique traits, around 26,000 patterns! Towns randomly generate, changing each time!