Single-player games like El Paso, Elsewhere
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to El Paso, Elsewhere, 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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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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Phantom House
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
Phantom House is a third-person survival horror game that plunges you into an abandoned house once home to dark rituals. Explore eerie halls, face unspeakable horrors, and rely on your wits and weapon to survive the unknown.
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Resident Evil Requiem
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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The Last of Us™ Part I
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
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The Evil Within 2
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
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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Fear the Timeloop - Prologue
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
Sheriff James Cooper is slowly bleeding to death in an unfamiliar hospital. But the moment his life ends, everything starts over. He has fifteen minutes to break this endless cycle, uncover the truth, and find a way out before it's too late.
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
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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Max Payne
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
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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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a violent, film-noir love story. Dark, tragic and intense, the in-depth story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations. Love hurts.
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Akane
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
2121 A.D, with no escape options, Akane prepares for her final battle in the rain-soaked neon streets of Mega-Tokyo. Akane is an arena arcade slasher. Take out as many yakuza as possible, slashing and shooting in a one-hit-one-kill fight to the death.
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
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Persona 3 Reload
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dive into the Dark Hour and awaken the depths of your heart. Persona 3 Reload is a captivating reimagining of the genre-defining RPG, reborn for the modern era with cutting-edge graphics and gameplay.
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Kill The Crows
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
"Kill The Crows" is a fast-paced top-down arena shooter set in the twisted western world. A gunslinger burning with vengeance steps into the ruins of a forsaken town, ready to face death. Prepare for one-shot, one-kill gunfights using classic revolvers and fanning techniques.
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Nightmare
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Nightmare is a FPS horror game about paranormal events that a police officer encounters in an abandoned house. With its tense atmosphere, it offers the player both excitement and an intense fear experience.
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I Am Your Beast
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
Hunt the military-industrial complex across stylish comic book micro-sandboxes in this fast-paced covert revenge thriller FPS from the developers of El Paso, Elsewhere.
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CLICKOLDING
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The man in the corner of your hotel room wants you to click something. He wants to watch you click it.
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Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Dive into the quivering innards of alien capitalism in the sci-fi body horror market tycoon game you didn't know you needed.
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Dread X Collection
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Paso, Elsewhere.
10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.
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Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Buy low, sell high, and short an entire universe of babies in this arcade stock market sim set in the world of Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.
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Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
MATCH DNA BUBBLES IN AN UNDERGROUND LAB TO KEEP YOUR PSYCHIC CLONE FROM INVADING YOUR MIND AND TURNING YOU INTO A CANNIBAL. This is the match-3 survival horror comedy RPG metroidvania you didn't know you needed.
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Life Eater
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.
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An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs
Single-player alternative to El Paso, Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is an open-world comedy adventure game. Talk to stock photo dogs. Solve their problems. Catch your flight. And call it Dog Airport Game when you get tired of saying the full title, like I did three months ago.