Single-player games like CANINE
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to CANINE, 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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Rotten Flesh - Cosmic Horror Survival Game
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CANINE.
Rotten Flesh is a cosmic horror survival game where you have just lost your dog named Roy and you have to find him by shouting for "ROY" on your microphone. Venture deep into the sewers where your dog was lost - however, something else can also hear your screams in the tunnels.
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Stay Out of the House
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CANINE.
Can you escape the home of a cannibal serial killer? It's only a matter of time until you're dinner!
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Deadly Night
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Carol is down on her luck, hitchhiking across the country. She arrives at a small roadside motel but there's something strange about the owner. As the secrets unravel, she finds herself entangled in a long, DEADLY NIGHT! Can she escape from hellish nightmare or will she die trying?
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CANINE.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CANINE.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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Blair Witch
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CANINE.
A first-person, story-driven psychological horror game based on the cinematic lore of the Blair Witch. Explore the haunted grounds of the Black Hills Forest in a harrowing investigation that forces you to confront the evil that resides deep in the woods.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CANINE.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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Lost in Vivo
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CANINE.
A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CANINE.
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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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Lost Diskettes Vol.1
Single-player alternative to CANINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CANINE.
This is a collection of short and experimental horror experiences, focused on surreal and bizarre plots.