Single-player games like The Collector
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Collector, 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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Voices in the Dark
Single-player alternative to The Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Collector.
The story of a young anthropologist who sets out on an expedition to investigate the disappearance of a group of scientists at an ancient excavation site. Creepy atmosphere and a constant sense of persecution will not let him go the rest of the way.
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My Grandparent's House
Single-player alternative to The Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Collector.
A first-person survival horror experience where you must play as a ten years old boy exploring a horrifying house and unraveling the mystery that lies within.
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Backrooms: Partygoers
Single-player alternative to The Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Collector.
Backrooms: Partygoers is a backrooms horror game based on Level 0 where you play as a researcher tasked to find anomalies inside the backrooms. You are equip with devices that can beep whenever an anomaly is near, where the partygoers roam and can hear you.
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死娩花-SHIMENKA
Single-player alternative to The Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Collector.
“SHIMENKA” is a first-person adventure horror game. Escape from the various monsters closing in on you and uncover the full story.
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Emberfly
Single-player alternative to The Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Collector.
Emberfly is a horror game set in Korea. One day, you wake up at school. The outside is dark, and no one seems to be around. Relying on the flashlight in your hand, you must find a way to escape from this dream that feels real but isn't.
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Project Songbird
Single-player alternative to The Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Collector.
Project Songbird is a cinematic first-person narrative horror game set in the Appalachian forest. Take on the role of Dakota, a musician who must record their new album in a remote log cabin amidst a writer's block. Take caution, however. These woods were never empty...
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Bleeding Border
Single-player alternative to The Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Collector.
Bleeding Border is a first person 3d survival horror game in which the player must escape through the top of a monster infested building using his own blood as the only defense mechanism.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to The Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Collector.
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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Disaster Area
Single-player alternative to The Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Collector.
Disaster Area is a stylized game that includes online combat and campaign mode. In the campaign mode, players will be brought into an unknown disaster. You will fight with your teammates to break out of the encirclement of horrible unknow creatures and explore the source of the disaster.