Single-player games like Anglerfish
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Anglerfish, 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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Veins Like Tapeworms
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
While working at their dead-end job and dreaming of what could’ve been, Demian Zhao discovers a flesh-eating parasite who promises to help them finally live free. If you let them, they'll become the monster of your own making - after all, who needs a moral compass when you have a god in the gutter?
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LATITUDE OF THE CULT
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
Latitude of the Cult blends psychological horror with stealth, combat, and exploration. Face fanatics and unpredictable threats as you fight, hide, and survive across hostile environments where tension, choice, and atmosphere shape every encounter and the reality around you.
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UnderMine 2
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
Delve into the dangerous, ever-shifting labyrinth that is the Undermine. Discover, craft, and combine hundreds of unique items. Pair them with an ever-expanding roster of distinct playable characters for a new run every time! Grab a partner and uncover UnderMine 2's secrets together in local co-op.
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Mongrel
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
The only roguelite where your only form of public transport is getting flushed in a toilet. Gain reputation with intellectually struggling humans to get a chance at intimacy with the only female in town and fight your way through the underworld to uncover the secrets of this twisted society!
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Weirdo
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anglerfish.
Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.
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VOID CRAWLER
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
Void Crawler is a horror game set in a dystopian future, where you pilot a vehicle nicknamed 'The Mole' into a mysterious void deep within the Earth to collect an extremely valuable material for a company dedicated to solving the world's energy crisis.
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Cruelty Squad
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world
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Discolored 2
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anglerfish.
All the colors have gone missing from the world. While on a mission to bring them back you discover you are being hunted by those who would see the colors banished. Your only hope is a woman in red who may be holding the key to preventing the world from becoming discolored.
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Security: The Horrible Nights
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
Every time you die, a new story begins. You are the nighttime security guard at a hospital. Your job is to monitor the hospital and fix problems when they happen. Every night, a new horror tale will unfold. If you can survive enough nights, you will learn the truth behind all the horror!
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LISA: The Painful
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anglerfish.
The miserable journey of a broken man...
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S E V E R A N C E
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Years after the Overflow, a catastrophe that plunged the city of Sci-Two into a decaying metropolis, a wayward smuggler stumbles into a plot surrounding the miracle drug Halcyon, veteran soldiers, and the corporation out to eradicate anyone too close to the truth, in a classic JRPG experience.
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Alien
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Anglerfish.
Alien is a visual novel exclusively for adults! This story is about a guy who has been dreaming of having sex with an alien woman for a very long time. At some point, this dream comes true and the guy finally fucked an alien woman!
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The Wrath of the Goose King
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Anglerfish.
The Wrath of the Goose King has been unleashed and it's up to the red pandas to save the day! In this rogue-lite adventure you recruit adorable and cunning Pandamembers to fight the geese in turn-based combat. Will you be the one to save pandakind?
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Big Trouble in Little Chimney
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
Krampus is Coming! Grab your Shotgun, finish your hot punch and don't forget your mission: Save the Christmas! Big Trouble in Little Chimney is highly-addictive and fast paced arena bullet-hell shooter.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Desk Till Dawn
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
Cause corporate chaos, explore unexplainable spaces, and survive a spreading virus that’s turning coworkers into something else in this office sandbox shooter
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Help! I am REALLY horny!
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anglerfish.
Help! I am REALLY horny! is a highly interactive adventure dating game where you color the tale along the way in unforeseeable ways through your choices and your dick slapping and tit swinging inputs.
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The ER: Patient Typhon
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
The ER: Patient Typhon is an atmosphere and exploration horror game where you are a young woman who has lost her arms. You have to use your wits, hide and run to survive this tale of deadly monsters and disturbing, environmental puzzles.
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Unsound Love
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anglerfish.
An open-world horror escape room where nothing is explained. You are born into a new world through the backseat of a wrecked car. Trapped in a time loop. Understand it — or stay trapped forever.