Single-player games like Gate of Souls
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Gate of Souls, 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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Nafanya the Poltergeist
Single-player alternative to Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gate of Souls.
A game about a house spirit - Houseboy. With the name Nafanya. The player will have to get out of a multi-unit Soviet house, which is run by the Domovoi. To find the way out, you will have to solve riddles from the spirit, and maybe even make friends with him.
- 2
Night of Horror
Single-player alternative to Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gate of Souls.
You are on the night shift at the bank. You hear noises all the time. You need to find out what they are and find your partner. As you pass, you will need to find the keys and open locked rooms.
- 3
A Night in Prison
Single-player alternative to Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gate of Souls.
You come to your senses in a cell that looks like you are in some kind of prison. It's almost silent, but sometimes there are some sounds.
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Shadow of the School
Single-player alternative to Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gate of Souls.
The player finds himself in an abandoned school, which was once a place of study for local schoolchildren. The protagonist is a paranormal researcher who came here to solve the mystery that shrouds this gloomy location.
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Hotel in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gate of Souls.
That's the day it all started on Sept. 13. 2020. In the early morning of the same day, I was already standing at the bus station, waiting for my bus. I had to travel a couple of three hundred kilometers to a small town. I found a hotel quickly. It was quite a modern building at first glance.
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Village
Single-player alternative to Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gate of Souls.
A young boy has come to a distant village to visit his grandmother. Arriving at the final station, in some wilderness, we find newspaper clippings on the platform. This is where our tangled story begins.
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Project Phoenix
Single-player alternative to Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gate of Souls.
The player finds himself in an abandoned Soviet bunker, built at the height of the Cold War. The protagonist is a stalker, a hunter for artifacts and secrets of the past. He entered the bunker, attracted by legends of secret experiments and the mysterious disappearance of all personnel.
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The Backrooms: Liminal Reality
Single-player alternative to Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gate of Souls.
Explore the backrooms and liminal spaces while trying to find your way out while you fight with the feeling like you are in a dream, or if you have just entered one of your own.
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The Guard
Single-player alternative to Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gate of Souls.
You are on the night shift at the mall. While you were taking your post, your partner went missing. All the time you hear some kind of noise. You need to find out their origin and find your partner. As you pass, you will need to find the keys and open locked rooms.
- 10
The Witch's House
Single-player alternative to Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gate of Souls.
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 Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gate of Souls.
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 Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Gate of Souls.
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.
- 13
DrugRunner
Single-player alternative to Gate of Souls — 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 Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gate of Souls.
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!
- 15
Sleep
Single-player alternative to Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gate of Souls.
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 Gate of Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Gate of Souls.
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).