Single-player games like Endless Dark
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Endless Dark, 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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Astronaut: The Best
Single-player alternative to Endless Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endless Dark.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
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Rock Star Manager
Single-player alternative to Endless Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endless Dark.
Manage your own music studio, hire bands, schedule shows and pay your bills.
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Landmine Princess
Single-player alternative to Endless Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Endless Dark.
Meet Mina! She's a landmine girl! That means she's cute on the outside, but dangerous on the inside! But maybe she's the kind of danger you've always been looking for. This is a rogue fast-love dating sim. And the only sim that teaches you to be nice to girls. Or else.
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CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
Single-player alternative to Endless Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endless Dark.
CHANGE is an award nominated homeless survival experience set in a randomly created city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items & kindness to develop your character & escape to a new life. Over 7 years of development & over 200 updates so far!
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Love, Internet, and Murder Magic
Single-player alternative to Endless Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Endless Dark.
Love, Internet, and Murder Magic is a Roguelike game. You will role-play an agent of a streamer who died because of a murder. You are trying to "bring her back" through AI technology on the Internet, making her the unique creation of the Internet.
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Curious Expedition 2
Single-player alternative to Endless Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endless Dark.
Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play.
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Heading Out
Single-player alternative to Endless Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endless Dark.
Flee your fear and carve your story. Blaze a trail across mythic American highways, where choices twist your tale and danger’s always in the rearview mirror. With roguelike routes, limited resources, and breakneck chases, this isn’t just a drive—it’s your legend in the making.
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Star Renegades
Single-player alternative to Endless Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endless Dark.
Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!
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Papers, Please
Single-player alternative to Endless Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Endless Dark.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Endless Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Endless Dark.
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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Disney•Pixar WALL-E
Single-player alternative to Endless Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Based on the 2008 computer animated film from Pixar Animation Studios, the video game version of WALL-E involves playing as the lonely robot as he navigates a trash-tainted world and begins an unlikely trek across the cosmos.
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Wall
Single-player alternative to Endless Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Endless Dark.
A short narrative adventure about friendship, loneliness, and staring at surfaces for meaning. Join your personal upright companion through an exploration into what it means to be Human, and what it means to be Wall.