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Single-player games like Killer Frequency

Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Killer Frequency, 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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    Not For Broadcast — Steam game cover

    Not For Broadcast

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wall — Steam game cover

    Wall

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    A short narrative adventure about friendship, loneliness, and staring at surfaces for meaning. Join your personal upright companion through an exploration into what it means to be Human, and what it means to be Wall.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Alice's Lullaby — Steam game cover

    Alice's Lullaby

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    Embark on a surreal, psychedelic adventure to travel back and forth through time and rescue young Alice, helping her escape the uncanny, macabre and treacherous world of Styx. Unravel the metaphysical mystery of the grandchild cult and find out why they call you the monster!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Adventures of LinShanHai - Chapter2:Bus Bombing — Steam game cover

    The Adventures of LinShanHai - Chapter2:Bus Bombing

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    The bus to the suburbs suddenly exploded, the scene was a mess, the sales staff, including all 10 people on board died. Lin Shanhai led the scene investigation team to conduct a detailed investigation and visited all the families and friends of the deceased, but the case is still no clue.

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Through The Backrooms — Steam game cover

    Through The Backrooms

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    You as Ethan, a robber who wants to end his criminal past. Suddenly you fall in the Backrooms and now you have to solve the mystery of the liminal rooms to find a way out. But you are not alone here...

    IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    THIS IS KIKO — Steam game cover

    THIS IS KIKO

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    A long time ago, my younger sister and I lived together in a house by the sea.And then, one day—I remember meeting her.Was she a good person? I should have asked myself that question sooner."THIS IS KIKO" is an adventure game set in the modern era.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation1.11 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    While We Wait Here — Steam game cover

    While We Wait Here

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Killer Frequency.

    Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

    2024AdventureSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Alfred's Alien Abduction Adventure — Steam game cover

    Alfred's Alien Abduction Adventure

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    Join Alfred in this 3D adventure game set onboard a scary alien mothership. In space no one can hear you s#!t yourself, thankfully.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SILENT HILL 2 — Steam game cover

    SILENT HILL 2

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    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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    Unheard - Voices of Crime — Steam game cover

    Unheard - Voices of Crime

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Killer Frequency.

    What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?

    2019IndieSimulationRPG2.79 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stranger Things 3: The Game — Steam game cover

    Stranger Things 3: The Game

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    Stranger Things 3: The Game is the official companion game to Season 3 of the hit original series! Play through familiar events from the series while also uncovering never-before-seen quests, character interactions, and secrets!

    2019ActionAdventureDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tales from the Borderlands — Steam game cover

    Tales from the Borderlands

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.

    2021Adventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Strange Horticulture — Steam game cover

    Strange Horticulture

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DREDGE — Steam game cover

    DREDGE

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.

    2023AdventureRPG10.79 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Oxenfree — Steam game cover

    Oxenfree

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    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.

    2016IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Overcooked! 2 — Steam game cover

    Overcooked! 2

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Killer Frequency.

    Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!

    2018ActionIndieCasual24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Golf With Your Friends — Steam game cover

    Golf With Your Friends

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Killer Frequency.

    Why have friends if not to play Golf... With Your Friends! Nothing is out of bounds as you take on courses filled with fast paced, exciting, simultaneous mini golf for up to 12 players!

    2020SportsIndieCasual2.39 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Escapists 2 — Steam game cover

    The Escapists 2

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Killer Frequency.

    Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Worms W.M.D — Steam game cover

    Worms W.M.D

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The worms are back in their most destructive game yet. With a gorgeous, hand-drawn 2D look, brand new weapons, the introduction of crafting, vehicles and buildings plus the return of some much-loved classic weapons and gameplay, Worms W.M.D is the best worms experience ever.

    2016ActionStrategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Survivalists — Steam game cover

    The Survivalists

    Single-player alternative to Killer Frequency — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Killer Frequency.

    A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

    2020ActionIndieAdventure5.39 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →