Single-player games like Directive 8020
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Directive 8020, 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 Backrooms Multiplayer
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
You and your friends have found a camera with a footage in it. For some reason you can't rewind the video, and as soon as you try winding it forward you all find yourself in the Backrooms. Together figure out whats in the footage and try to ESCAPE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!
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The Casting of Frank Stone™
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Directive 8020.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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As Dusk Falls
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
Explore the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong, the character's lives depend on the choices you make.
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Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
Fire up a wild ride across the cosmos with a fresh take on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. In this action-adventure game, you are Star-Lord leading the unpredictable Guardians from one explosion of chaos to the next. You got this. Probably.
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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The Quarry
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.
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Little Nightmares III
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
Little Nightmares III is an atmospheric adventure game in which you follow the journey of Low and Alone, two best friends in search of a way out of the Nowhere. In 2 players online cooperation or solo with an A.I., work together to solve puzzles and survive in this nightmarish world.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
At the close of the Iraq War, Special Forces hunting for weapons of mass destruction unearth something far deadlier – a buried Sumerian temple containing a nest of unearthly creatures. To survive the night below, they must forge a brotherhood with their enemies from the world above.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
Trapped and isolated in the abandoned town of Little Hope, 4 college students and their teacher must escape the nightmarish apparitions that relentlessly pursue them through an impenetrable fog.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
Single-player alternative to Directive 8020 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of serial killer H.H. Holmes ‘Murder Castle’. But on arrival they soon discover they’re being watched, and even manipulated, and suddenly there is much more at stake than just their ratings…