Single-player games like Penumbra Overture
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Penumbra Overture, 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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Penumbra Overture.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Penumbra Overture.
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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Mr. Grin's Final Act
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Penumbra Overture.
Thirty years ago, a tragedy silenced the studio. Now you're back... and so is Mr. Grin. In this first-person survival horror, scavenge badges, rewire circuits, crack safes. Stay out of sight. One sound and you die. He's not hunting you. He's directing you. His script. Your survival.
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Amnesia: Rebirth
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra Overture.
A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Penumbra Overture.
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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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Penumbra Overture.
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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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Penumbra Overture.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Penumbra Overture.
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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Worms
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Throw a grenade down memory lane with the original and classic turn-based strategy game Worms™! Up to 4 teams of worms do battle over an ever-changing battlefield with falling weapon crates, crazed exploding sheep and more besides. Winner of many industry awards, find out what all the fuss was about.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Penumbra Overture.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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The Thing from Nowhere
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra Overture.
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Penumbra Overture.
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.
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The Thing: Remastered
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penumbra Overture.
The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penumbra Overture.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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Amnesia: The Bunker
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Penumbra Overture.
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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Penumbra: Requiem
Single-player alternative to Penumbra Overture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra Overture.
Puzzle expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague. Requiem is part of Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition, included in the Penumbra Collection.