Single-player games like Rip Current
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Rip Current, 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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Crib
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Rip Current.
It's time to face! As Milton, your past invites you to solve the mysteries. What you learn about yourself will surprise you. Most importantly remember that this is not a nightmare, this is a reality.
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Niskala Sacred Knowledge of Leyak
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rip Current.
Niskala: Sacred Knowledge of Leyak is a small-team Indonesian indie psychological horror game, inspired by Balinese culture, local wisdom, and folklore. Created with respect and research, the game explores the myth of leyak (leak) and Bali’s spiritual unseen world.
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Big Larry
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rip Current.
The dark night starts with a simple task. Suddenly realizing youre trapped and alone... your fight or flight response kicks in. Especially when the creepy school mascot was just found DEAD. Figure out puzzles, watch your surroundings and most importantly do not disturb BIG LARRY.
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Who is Paul
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rip Current.
Isaac, a failed detective, receives a mysterious letter that leads him to investigate a desolate and abandoned house in order to make ends meet. However, upon arrival, he realizes that instead of investigating, he must survive. To escape this house filled with dark secrets,
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You had a bad dream
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rip Current.
A minimalist horror game where you move through procedurally generated narrow corridors and avoid lurking monsters.
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Absolute Fear -AOONI- / 最恐 -青鬼-
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rip Current.
20 years after the birth of the legendary horror game "AOONI"... A completely new first-person, 3D horror stealth action "Absolute Fear -AOONI-" is now available! Players take on the role of a younger sister searching for her older sister in a mysterious mansion where AOONI roam.
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Noitapeli
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rip Current.
First person horror game, you have a special watch in your hand which shows the distance to the noita. Find a bottle which noita needs and bring it back. Use gun, collect mushrooms and avoid noita to find the bottle.
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The Lost Gallery
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rip Current.
Works of art are attacking people, turning an exhibition into a bloodbath in a single night. At the same time, you – a phantom thief – happen to be there to steal a valuable masterpiece.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rip Current.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rip Current.
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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Unknown Tapes
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rip Current.
You are the prey. Unknown Tapes is a horror video game that employs the found footage technique to narrate a story focused on survival in a modern setting overrun by dinosaurs. It aims for realism and draws inspiration from Dino Crisis and Outlast.
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Oakwood
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rip Current.
Welcome to Oakwood, a long abandoned campground nestled in the forests of British Columbia. Explore the woods, caves, and a dilapidated lodge in search of your friends, while surviving the prehistoric horrors that now haunt the grounds.
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Dino Crisis
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Rip Current.
Raw Instinct takes over in this new, adrenaline-pumping journey into Survival Horror. Something is terribly wrong. Your covert mission has gone haywire… now you find yourself pursued by a relentless, prehistoric terror. Suddenly, your mission becomes a desperate fight for survival.
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Fossilfuel
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rip Current.
Fossilfuel, is a horror action shooter, where the player must fight their way through Jurassic monsters and Super Soldiers, in this multi-ending, adrenaline-fueled cyberpunk experience!
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Fossilfuel 2
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rip Current.
Turn up the volume, turn off the lights, and get ready for the definitive Jurassic survival horror experience. Pump your shotgun and put those dinos back where they belong... in the ground!
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rip Current.
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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Storm Burst: Tornado Alley
Single-player alternative to Rip Current — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Rip Current.
Prepare and seek shelter as one of nature's most fearsome threats bears down on your farmstead. Cover ground as quickly as possible and attempt to survive the horror of the ever looming tornado danger.