Single-player games like Alien: Isolation
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to Alien: Isolation, 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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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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Dead Space (2008)
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Metro Exodus
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
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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Little Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Resident Evil 3
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
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 2
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Hello Neighbor
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hello Neighbor is a Stealth Horror Game about sneaking into your neighbor's house and figuring out what he's hiding in the basement. Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions.
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SIGNALIS
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
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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Total War: WARHAMMER III
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.
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Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.
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Total War: SHOGUN 2
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Total War: SHOGUN 2 is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming for newcomers and veterans alike.
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Total War: WARHAMMER
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.
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Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.