Single-player games like Outlast
Below are 13 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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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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Deadly Night
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Outlast.
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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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?
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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to Outlast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outlast.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. 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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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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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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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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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.