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Single-player games like He Needs His Medicine

Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to He Needs His Medicine, 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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    Flesh Water — Steam game cover

    Flesh Water

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with He Needs His Medicine.

    This is your last day as a worker for a pet feeding service, and depending on how the day goes, your life. Prepare the final meal for a client's odd pet that lives in an abandoned pool all while trying to make it out safely and avoid mistakes.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Apartment 22 — Steam game cover

    Apartment 22

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with He Needs His Medicine.

    Apartment 22 is a bite-sized horror game about being trapped in a loop. You look out for clues left by the previous resident or possibly by you to escape the apartment.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    사괴야행 — Steam game cover

    사괴야행

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with He Needs His Medicine.

    Let's escape from the shrine to find the five beads sealed in the red box to avoid various goblins.

    2022ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    How We Got Here — Steam game cover

    How We Got Here

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with He Needs His Medicine.

    You wake up on a floating island with no idea how you got there. Find ways to reach new and strange islands and meet other survivors all while uncovering the story of how you all got there.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Static Dread: The Lighthouse — Steam game cover

    Static Dread: The Lighthouse

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with He Needs His Medicine.

    Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Garten of Banban 2 — Steam game cover

    Garten of Banban 2

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with He Needs His Medicine.

    Continue the story of Banban’s Kindergarten. Delve deeper into the bizarre establishment where the place was left suspiciously empty. Try to survive the unexpected residents, all while uncovering the truth behind the place…

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Water Delivery — Steam game cover

    Water Delivery

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with He Needs His Medicine.

    Water Delivery is a first person, horror experience where you play as a water delivery boy. Ride along in the delivery truck from house to house. Deliver filled water jugs, find and return empty jugs, and collect all the payments. Will you be able to finish your final route of the evening?

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Garten of Banban — Steam game cover

    Garten of Banban

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with He Needs His Medicine.

    Enter Banban's Kindergarten, and you're sure to make some friends. Explore the mysterious establishment and don't lose your life and sanity. Uncover the horrifying truth behind the place, but be careful, as you are far from alone…

    2023ActionIndieAdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Darkside Detective — Steam game cover

    The Darkside Detective

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with He Needs His Medicine.

    Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SILENT HILL 2 — Steam game cover

    SILENT HILL 2

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with He Needs His Medicine.

    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.

    2024ActionAdventure34.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Home — Steam game cover

    Home

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with He Needs His Medicine.

    Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.

    2012IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition — Steam game cover

    DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with He Needs His Medicine.

    DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.

    2015IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Swallow The Blue — Steam game cover

    Swallow The Blue

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with He Needs His Medicine.

    An eerie horror game set in a weird hotel plagued with bizarre beings and interesting characters. The game utilizes a never-used before environment alongside brand new horror mechanics, one of a kind graphics/art style, and an unnerving story with rich lore to create a unique experience for players.

    2020ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Swallow The Blue: Remastered — Steam game cover

    Swallow The Blue: Remastered

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with He Needs His Medicine.

    An eerie horror game set in a weird hotel plagued with bizarre beings and interesting characters. The game utilizes a never-used before environment alongside brand new horror mechanics, one of a kind graphics/art style, and an unnerving story with rich lore to create a unique experience for players.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Introvert: A Teenager Simulator — Steam game cover

    Introvert: A Teenager Simulator

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with He Needs His Medicine.

    One of the new guys in school tells you he’s going to shoot up the school if he doesn’t make friends in 5 days. Discover the decisions, people, situations you will encounter while playing and trying to make friends of your own and living your own life.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Life On A Pizza — Steam game cover

    Life On A Pizza

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with He Needs His Medicine.

    You are no longer the eater; you are the eaten. Play as toppings trying to survive on a pizza from the hungry Jaw biting its way to you and the ants pushing you to your delicious death. Customize the pizza, pick a mode and your topping, then hop in this hysterical party or solo game.

    2021ActionStrategyIndieFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Human Apocalypse - Reverse Horror Zombie Indie RPG Adventure — Steam game cover

    Human Apocalypse - Reverse Horror Zombie Indie RPG Adventure

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with He Needs His Medicine.

    A new virus is turning people into brain eating machines, etc. You know the rest. A cure has been found and all the infected people are now normal humans again. What is the problem then? Their skin color is still green. Play as an Ex-Zombie.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Human Apocalypse: Prologue — Steam game cover

    Human Apocalypse: Prologue

    Single-player alternative to He Needs His Medicine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with He Needs His Medicine.

    A new virus is turning people into brain eating machines, etc. You know the rest. A cure has been found and all the infected people are now normal humans again. What is the problem then? Their skin color is still green. Play as an Ex-Zombie.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →