Single-player games like Total Chaos
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Total Chaos, 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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Amnesia: The Bunker
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Total Chaos.
Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.
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Cry of Fear
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Total Chaos.
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Total Chaos.
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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Among Ashes
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Total Chaos.
Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿
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Beyond Hanwell
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Total Chaos.
Explore Westminster, London on a journey to the ruins of Hanwell. Fight with whatever you can find or use the environment to defend yourself against an ever increasing scourge of Anomalies.
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Resident Evil Requiem
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Total Chaos.
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Total Chaos.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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Dementium: The Ward
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Total Chaos.
Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Total Chaos.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Total Chaos.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Total Chaos.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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Resident Evil 3
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Total Chaos.
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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Quake
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Total Chaos.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Condemned to Clean
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Total Chaos.
You are a cleaner, not by calling, but by sentence. Condemned to Clean is a single-player simulator where you restore a provincial beach. Explore, collect trash, pay your debt, and do small deeds for a greater purpose!
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Turbo Overkill
Single-player alternative to Total Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Total Chaos.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!