Single-player games like MISERY
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to MISERY, 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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Elysium
Single-player alternative to MISERY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to MISERY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to MISERY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Stormforge
Single-player alternative to MISERY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Stormforge is an open-world survival crafting game for 1 to 8 players. You are Stormforged, with the ability to brave and harness power from magical storms. Explore, fight, forage, craft, build, and defeat bosses in this epic, fantasy game. Survive the Storms and thrive!
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Rinthine
Single-player alternative to MISERY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Brave the depths of an ever-changing labyrinth in search of secrets, treasures—or simply a place to call home.
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THE LAST BREATH
Single-player alternative to MISERY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Survive the post-apocalypse world. There's a predator who's going after you. This is Online and local party games enjoyed by 1 to 5 players. you have to Survive in an end-of-life world.
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SkyCraft
Single-player alternative to MISERY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with MISERY.
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
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Frostrail
Single-player alternative to MISERY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Through the frost, death follows the tracks. Dive into a ruthless survival FPS, solo or co-op. Explore, scavenge, craft and fight to endure a frozen, corrupted world. Operate and upgrade your steam-powered train through an unforgiving wasteland, where every choice is a matter of survival.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Single-player alternative to MISERY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MISERY.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
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Mini Metro
Single-player alternative to MISERY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with MISERY.
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
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Metro Exodus
Single-player alternative to MISERY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MISERY.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
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H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Single-player alternative to MISERY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Forget about the rules, there are none here. Just you, your weapon and the endless, ominous wastelands waiting for you to plunge into them. So, are you ready to become a predator among predators? Then welcome to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R.. It will hurt, but damn it will be fun!