Single-player games like Still Wakes the Deep
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Still Wakes the Deep, 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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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Still Wakes the Deep.
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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THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Still Wakes the Deep.
The well has gone dry. It's up to you to find out why. Traverse through abandoned tunnels. Discover remnants of a ritual never meant to be seen. Power dying machinery to bring light into darkness. Dig into broken earth and crawl your way out. Down here you’re not exploring... you're trespassing.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Still Wakes the Deep.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Scorn
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Still Wakes the Deep.
Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.
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Claustrophobia
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Still Wakes the Deep.
Claustrophobia offers a scary and dark horror experience filled with blood boiling moments, first you will have to silently move your way through the darkness, until you can pick up arms and discover the truth. Can you figure out what is hiding in this grueling subterranean facility?
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Mountains of Madness
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Still Wakes the Deep.
A first person horror exploration game set in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Use your tools to navigate the frozen galleries untouched by millennia and unearth evidence of a dreadful truth while you search for a madman whose ill fate lies somewhere beneath these Mountains of Madness
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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Still Wakes the Deep.
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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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Still Wakes the Deep.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Still Wakes the Deep.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
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Observation
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Still Wakes the Deep.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Still Wakes the Deep.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Still Wakes the Deep.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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Dear Esther
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Still Wakes the Deep.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Still Wakes the Deep.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Still Wakes the Deep.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Still Wakes the Deep.
You are the Nomad — an elder vampire awakening from a century-long slumber, new to the modern nights. Trapped in your Blood is a stranger’s voice. This entity, a vampire detective known as Fabien, will be your guide to 21st-century Seattle.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Still Wakes the Deep.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Still Wakes the Deep.
Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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Little Orpheus
Single-player alternative to Still Wakes the Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Still Wakes the Deep.
This definitive edition of the multiple-award-winning hit by master storytellers The Chinese Room is remastered for the big screen and includes all bonus content of the original. A HERO WILL EMERGE!