Single-player games like Kriophobia
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Kriophobia, 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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Cytokine Storm
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Kriophobia.
Cytokine Storm is a retro survival horror set inside a coma patient's body. Battle parasites, viruses, and a defective immune system to wake yourself up. Explore a surreal biological world where you must use your wits, weapons, and unique costumes to survive grotesque locations and puzzles.
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Dry Meadow
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
Fight, sneak and scavenge through lands left altered after an unknown catastrophe from the Soviet Union. Light fires to stay warm. Drink vodka to stay sane.
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Asylum
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
ASYLUM is an atmospheric first-person survival horror. Explore dark environments, hide from deadly creatures, and solve puzzles to survive. Listen to every sound and search for a way to escape in an atmosphere of constant threat.
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Dracula Awakens
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
Kill monsters using your camera and solve puzzles as you try to survive Dracula himself in his castle in this retro-style survival horror game.
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SHE (Seraphim Helix Experiment)
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A unique blend of tactical stealth action and survival horror, inspired by the classics. Trapped in a missile silo with an angelic entity and mutating personnel, new life grows in the belly of the lead researcher, the Sergeant has given you his orders, and an eerie voice sings through the walls.
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Fragile Reflection
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
A young woman returns back to her home in a rural Japanese village - but something is very wrong. Find items, solve puzzles, fight monsters and traverse between dimensions. Help Kario Ito reveal hidden mysteries and stay alive in this retro-styled survival horror!
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Tenebris Somnia
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
Tenebris Somnia is a 2D retro survival horror adventure game with live action cutscenes created by an award winning film crew from Argentina. Unveil the depths of a disturbing story by solving puzzles and fighting horrible creatures. ...What if they aren't just nightmares?
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Crow Country
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
The year is 1990. It’s been two years since the mysterious disappearance of Edward Crow and the abrupt closure of his theme park, Crow Country. But your arrival has broken the silence, Mara Forest. If you want answers, you’ll have to venture deep into the darkness of Crow Country to find them…
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Kriophobia.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Kriophobia.
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.
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Alone in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Kriophobia.
Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.
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The Thing from Nowhere
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".
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The Thing: Remastered
Single-player alternative to Kriophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing