Single-player games like Chernobyl: Origins
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Chernobyl: Origins, 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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YinYang Street: Separate Ways
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Street Li Fang Zhuan is a Chinese micro horror game set in 1980s China, combining the story of understanding puzzles and text adventures. In the game, the scroll scene that can be moved by four axes is applied to bring different game experience to the player.
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Rusty Lake Hotel
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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Cut to the Core
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
How much of someone can you cut away before there's nothing left? Find out in this chilling kinetic visual novel - IF YOU DARE!
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a pet shop after dark
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.
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Tales from Candleforth
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Tales from Candleforth is a folk horror 2D point and click game with puzzles and escape room mechanics, that narrates the fairy tales from the village. The text contained in this ancient and evil book is now bleeding out, mixing the world of nightmares with the real one through handmade 2D graphics.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
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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Overboard!
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
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Escape from Chernobyl
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Will take you back to 1986, to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located near the city of Pripyat
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Escape from Chernobyl: Jailbreak
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
The plot of the game will tell the story of the mysterious prisoner E-0308, who found himself in prison for a special content of the ER-03 project, near the town of Pripyat
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Goblin Survivors
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Goblin Survivors - casual goblin destruction simulator with roguelike elements. Pump up destructive magic, erase hundreds of vile monsters, survive in battles with bosses! Make up your set of spells before foray into the lands of the enemy, for the most effective extermination!