Single-player games like Village
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Village, 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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The Painscreek Killings
Single-player alternative to Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Village.
Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?
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Strange Horticulture
Single-player alternative to Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Village.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Village.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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Aurora Hills: Chapter 2
Single-player alternative to Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Village.
Aurora Hills: Chapter 2 is the second part in series of point and click puzzle adventure games. Follow the journey of Ethan Hill, a park ranger tasked with investigating strange disappearances from a national park to uncover the mystery of Aurora Hills!
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Village.
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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The Gretlow Tapes
Single-player alternative to Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Village.
Armed with nothing but your camera, investigate the abandoned Gretlow House in this short, atmospheric horror game. Uncover a chilling mystery through a realistic found-footage lens.
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Blair Witch
Single-player alternative to Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Village.
A first-person, story-driven psychological horror game based on the cinematic lore of the Blair Witch. Explore the haunted grounds of the Black Hills Forest in a harrowing investigation that forces you to confront the evil that resides deep in the woods.
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Beside Myself
Single-player alternative to Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Village.
You have to play as the historian-journalist Michael, plunge into the atmosphere of darkness of an abandoned hospital, where you will need to unravel the secrets of the past and try to get out in order to tell the whole world about those terrible events.
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The Guard
Single-player alternative to Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Village.
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.
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The Witch's House
Single-player alternative to Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Village.
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 Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Village.
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 Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Village.
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.
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DrugRunner
Single-player alternative to Village — 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 Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Village.
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!
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Sleep
Single-player alternative to Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Village.
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 Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Village.
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).