Single-player games like The Guard
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Guard, 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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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guard.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guard.
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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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guard.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guard.
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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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guard.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guard.
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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Near Death
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guard.
Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guard.
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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The Witch's House
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guard.
There is an old house on the edge of a small town. All the locals have always avoided it, as strange and mysterious events constantly happen there. This time, what happened in this house made the whole city shudder with fear.
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Ghost Village
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guard.
My grandmother was originally from the village, but after the environmental disaster that occurred 30 years ago near their settlement, she moved to our city and lived with us.
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Mission: Aliens
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Guard.
Sergeant, last night we received a signal that an unknown aircraft of extraterrestrial origin had crashed in the taiga. The locals assured us that at the crash site they observed five creatures very similar to humans, only with gray skin and large almond-shaped eyes.
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DrugRunner
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Drug Runner is a 3D game in which you have to run along the road and dodge obstacles, on the way collecting bonuses and coins that give you points. If you can jump over the barrier by pressing the "space bar".
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Battle Robots
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Guard.
Do you like fast games with the grinding of metal? Try to take part in fights with robots. Your task is to come out of the battle victorious, deftly inflicting crushing blows on your opponent. Upgrade your armor, and then head to the arena to fight. Start playing now!
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Sleep
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guard.
Nastya, she is 18 years old. Every day she draws images of the monsters that come to her and describes them. And every night, Nastya has a dream where she fights her monsters. And with each dream, you have to get out of the dream.
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307 Racing
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Guard.
Circuit racing is the common name for several types of car races, held on special tracks with hard surfaces. The main feature of such competitions is that the track has a closed form (ring).
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Metal Detecting Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Guard.
2D platformer with a view from the top. In the game you have to buy equipment to search for various items. Metal detectors, shovels, will help you in this. You come to the new land, you need to buy land and start searching for gold and coins, as well you will come across junk.