Single-player games like Don't Panic
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Don't Panic, 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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Dark Haunting
Single-player alternative to Don't Panic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
A multiplayer co-op horror game.
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Project MISPLACE
Single-player alternative to Don't Panic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
A living facility rearranges rooms behind you. Co-op horror for 1–4, 8, or 16 — it only wants you to hold still.
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Midnight Watch
Single-player alternative to Don't Panic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Don't Panic.
It is a psychological horror survival game with a millennium-era Chinese dreamcore aesthetic. You play as a night guard in an old residential compound, defending against the "unspeakable things" that wander the late-night hours—all while staring at a flickering, snow-filled monitor.
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NEUROSYNTH
Single-player alternative to Don't Panic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
A survival horror game where consciousness is no longer bound to the body. Play as a NullRunner and jack into the Null, a dimension of unknown origin filled with hostile entities and unstable environments, where you complete contracts for competing factions and extract safely.
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That Which Remains
Single-player alternative to Don't Panic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
1–4 player sci-fi ghost-hunting horror extraction sim with proximity voice chat. Travel across time to extract resources, identify and capture hostile entities as fuel for a supposed future utopia. Speak to entities using your voice, upgrade your prison, craft tools, and meet a rising daily quota.
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Camp Wombo
Single-player alternative to Don't Panic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Don't Panic.
Co-op survival horror game. Four friends must gather resources and repair their vehicle while surviving deadly creatures in a constantly changing forest.
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Liminal Protocol
Single-player alternative to Don't Panic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
Project your consciousness into a facility transformed into an unstable 3D ASCII lattice. Alone or with up to four Operators, phase through sealed corridors, synchronize Transmit Nodes, survive entities entering through a dimensional tear, and escape before the T-Link rewrites your identity.
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SCP
Single-player alternative to Don't Panic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
Infiltrate breached SCP facilities in this tactical co-op horror extraction shooter. Survive surreal anomalies, recover forbidden intel, and escape.. or lose everything. The deeper you go, the stranger and deadlier it gets.