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Games like The Ship: Single Player

If The Ship: Single Player is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Ship: Murder Party, Bullet Horizon VR: Covert Ops and Backrooms Bodycam — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its assassination requires calculated patience, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About The Ship: Single Player: The Ship is a murder mystery alternative to traditional FPS multiplayer games - hunt and be hunted! Package includes multiplayer, single player and tutorial.

2006ActionIndieRPGDeck PlayableWindowsby Outerlight Ltd.
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1920s art deco ship feels immersiveAssassination requires calculated patienceSurvival mechanics like food and sleep add tensionAtmosphericChallengingNostalgic

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Steam players who put hours into The Ship: Single Player also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. The Ship: Murder Party

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with The Ship: Single Player.

    Top pick for The Ship: Single Player fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ship: Single Player.

    The Ship is a murder mystery multiplayer.

    2006ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bullet Horizon VR: Covert Ops

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Ship: Single Player fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ship: Single Player.

    Step into the shadows of modern warfare in this VR tactical shooter. Plan your approach, infiltrate enemy zones, and complete high-risk missions with precision and stealth. Experience realistic weapon control and full hand-tracking immersion.

    ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  3. Backrooms Bodycam

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Ship: Single Player fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ship: Single Player.

    These are still the same yellow corridors and rooms inhabited by dangerous entities, but now you can fight them back!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Blood West

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ship: Single Player.

    Ranked #4 for The Ship: Single Player fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ship: Single Player.

    Weird west legends meet eldritch horror in BLOOD WEST, an immersive stealth FPS. Become the Undead Gunslinger, doomed to roam the barren lands until he manages to purge their curse, freeing his soul. 3 varied scenarios, perk-based character progression, and 20+ hours of gameplay await you!

    2023ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. RAID: World War II

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Ship: Single Player fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Ship: Single Player.

    RAID: World War II is an action-packed four player cooperative shooter set during a time when the Nazi war machine was still winning, and hope was in short supply.

    2017ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Deus Ex: The Fall

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with The Ship: Single Player.

    Ranked #6 for The Ship: Single Player fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Ship: Single Player.

    Deus Ex: The Fall is set in 2027– a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but also a time of great social divide and global conspiracy. Powerful corporations have seized control from governments and command the drug supply needed by augmented humans to survive.

    2014ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Eldritch

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ship: Single Player.

    Ranked #7 for The Ship: Single Player fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ship: Single Player.

    Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PAYDAY 3

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with The Ship: Single Player.

    Ranked #8 for The Ship: Single Player fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Ship: Single Player.

    PAYDAY 3 is the ultimate co-op FPS crime fantasy. Choose between stealth or loud playstyles, customize your character, and get ready to pull off the perfect heist.

    2023ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Ship: Single Player.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Ship: Single Player.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Ship: Single Player.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Ship: Single Player.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Ship: Single Player.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Ship: Single Player.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  7. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Ship: Single Player.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Ship: Single Player

Does The Ship: Single Player run on Steam Deck?
The Ship: Single Player is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
What games are most similar to The Ship: Single Player?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Ship: Single Player are The Ship: Murder Party, Bullet Horizon VR: Covert Ops, Backrooms Bodycam.
Who developed The Ship: Single Player?
The Ship: Single Player was developed by Outerlight Ltd. and published by Blazing Griffin Ltd..

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Ship: Single Player.

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