Single-player games like Outlast
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Outlast, 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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Outlast 2
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
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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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Outlast.
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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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outlast.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
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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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Outlast.
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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Visage
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
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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MADiSON
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outlast.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outlast.
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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Heliophobia
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
Heliophobia is a first-person horror/mystery adventure presented through a surreal, non-linear narrative. You awake on a vacant plane, given only a singular task: kill the one with the initials "J.R.".
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
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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Papa
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outlast.
Years after escaping your childhood home, you return to visit your dying father one last time. As strange events unfold, memories of the past begin to blur with reality.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
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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>observer_
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outlast.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
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Martha Is Dead
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outlast.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
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The Outlast Trials
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?