Single-player games like Slender: The Arrival
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Slender: The Arrival, 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
Single-player alternative to Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slender: The Arrival.
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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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Slender: The Arrival.
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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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slender: The Arrival.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slender: The Arrival.
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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Five Nights at Freddy's
Single-player alternative to Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Slender: The Arrival.
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slender: The Arrival.
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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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slender: The Arrival.
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 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Slender: The Arrival.
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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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Slender: The Arrival.
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 Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Slender: The Arrival.
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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Phantom Thief Sylphy 2 - The Collector
Single-player alternative to Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slender: The Arrival.
The titular busty bespectacled phantom thief finds herself trapped in the domain of a demon known as The Collector. Can she beat his challenge and escape, or will she succumb to the sweet torment he offers. You decide! A hardcore hentai game filled with delightful downfalls.
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Valley
Single-player alternative to Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slender: The Arrival.
Explore the vast and beautiful world of Valley using the power of the L.E.A.F. suit: a fierce exoskeleton that grants exceptional speed and agility along with the phenomenal ability to manipulate the life and death of all living things.
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Citadel: Forged with Fire
Single-player alternative to Slender: The Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slender: The Arrival.
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!