Single-player games like Search
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Search, 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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The Victor Initiative
Single-player alternative to Search — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Search.
The Initiative was a Welsh government facility that was mysteriously abandoned in the 60s, with rumours of terrifying supernatural threats lurking inside. Will you take the plunge?
- 2
Off the Clock: 13/F
Single-player alternative to Search — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Search.
Late at night in an office tower, you are trapped in floors that keep repeating. Some of them have let in things that don't belong to this decade, as if something would rather you stayed. Spot the anomalies, keep going down, and find out what this building really is.
- 3
The 7th Shift
Single-player alternative to Search — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Search.
Work the overnight shift alone at Founder's Choice Market. Inspect shipments, decide what’s accepted or denied, and stock the shelves. But be careful, your performance is being evaluated, and it determines your fate. Escape after seven shifts or be forced to join the staff that never clocks out
- 4
Buenos Aires Mirror Line
Single-player alternative to Search — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Search.
Carefully observe your sorroundings and come back to your reality by finding what doesn't fit. If something's wrong take the bus back from across the street. A game situated in the haze of Buenos Aires.
- 5
7 Days To Think About It
Single-player alternative to Search — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Search.
A short psychological horror game where your friends invite you to hang out tonight — you have 7 days to think about it.
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8 floor, only me ?
Single-player alternative to Search — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Search.
A horror game where you must identify anomalies in the environment. You’re trying to leave the building, but the 1st floor never comes.
- 7
S.A.M. - Stasis Asset Management
Single-player alternative to Search — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Search.
Take the night shift watching CCTV over a sealed-off site: spot the smallest thing out of place, report it, and last until your shift ends. You can't trust what's on the screens — or the aging terminal showing them to you.
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Chiasmus
Single-player alternative to Search — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Search.
Viktor finds himself in a mysterious apartment with no way out. He discovers an amazing ability to move between two parallel worlds. This discovery helps him piece together the scattered fragments of what is happening and find the key to solving the mystery.