Single-player games like The Occultist
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Occultist, 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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Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss
Single-player alternative to The Occultist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Occultist.
A mining station in the Pacific abyss is no longer responding. As an investigator of the occult, unravel the mysteries of the deep. Test your wits and sanity in this lovecraftian thriller.
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Call of Cthulhu®
Single-player alternative to The Occultist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Occultist.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to The Occultist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occultist.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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The Chant
Single-player alternative to The Occultist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Occultist.
A single-player, third person horror action-adventure game set on a remote spiritual island retreat. To survive you must craft, fight, and escape the psychedelic horrors set loose when a spiritual ritual goes wrong and awakens a dimension of cosmic terror.
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to The Occultist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occultist.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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REVEIL
Single-player alternative to The Occultist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occultist.
REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.
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Enigma of Fear
Single-player alternative to The Occultist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Occultist.
Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
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The Last Case of John Morley
Single-player alternative to The Occultist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occultist.
Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to The Occultist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Occultist.
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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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to The Occultist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Occultist.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to The Occultist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Occultist.
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.