Single-player games like Substitute Priest
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Substitute Priest, 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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Silent
Single-player alternative to Substitute Priest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Substitute Priest.
It's a different way to feel the emotion of fear. While playing a game, even the slightest sound will cause you to start the game from the beginning. While you are trying to solve a mysterious case, you have an accident on the forest road. You must find a way out of the forest.
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Hidden Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Substitute Priest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Substitute Priest.
Hidden Nightmares is a horror experience set inside the endless nightmares of a psychiatric patient. Experience the horrors generated by the human mind and wonder if you will ever wake up again.
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Creaks
Single-player alternative to Substitute Priest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Substitute Priest.
The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest
Single-player alternative to Substitute Priest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Substitute Priest.
Explore the myths and monsters of Europe’s last primeval wilderness. Play as Maia, who arrives at the ancient Białowieża Forest looking to explore her family history. Discover Rage in an adventure game inspired by the experience of the legendary tabletop roleplaying game Werewolf: The Apocalypse.
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Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season
Single-player alternative to Substitute Priest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Substitute Priest.
While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters.
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AR-K: The Great Escape
Single-player alternative to Substitute Priest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Substitute Priest.
AR-K: The Great Escape is the third episode in the classic point and click saga of AR-K. Help Alicia Van Volish to escape from District 8 and discover the source of the mysterious Golden Sphere through a great story, written by the 3 times Eisner award-winning writer Greg Rucka.
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Martha Is Dead
Single-player alternative to Substitute Priest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Substitute Priest.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
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That Dragon, Cancer
Single-player alternative to Substitute Priest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Substitute Priest.
An immersive, narrative videogame that retells Joel Green’s 4-year fight against cancer through about two hours of poetic, imaginative gameplay that explores themes of faith, hope and love.
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...Knew the Beginning
Single-player alternative to Substitute Priest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Substitute Priest.
A world you don't recognize anymore. You wake up inside a bar after the apocalypse. The barkeeper of said bar is in trouble. Do what you can to help him, after all he is all you remember.