Single-player games like Sonar Shock
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Sonar Shock, 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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Look Outside
Single-player alternative to Sonar Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sonar Shock.
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
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Stygian: Outer Gods
Single-player alternative to Sonar Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Sonar Shock.
Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?
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System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
Single-player alternative to Sonar Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sonar Shock.
System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Sonar Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sonar Shock.
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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Dead of Darkness
Single-player alternative to Sonar Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sonar Shock.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
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Tower of Mask
Single-player alternative to Sonar Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sonar Shock.
Tower of Mask is a thrilling survival horror in the spirit of the 80's dungeon crawlers. The most claustrophobic dungeon in modern times is yours to venture through alone. Hero, face the ancient tower where eerie masked humans prowl.
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Narcosis
Single-player alternative to Sonar Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sonar Shock.
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
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HYPERVIOLENT
Single-player alternative to Sonar Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Sonar Shock.
An ancient evil has awoken in the depths of a remote mining asteroid, stirred from its slumber by man's lust for power. Unaware, you answer a distress call and become stranded, surrounded by monstrous foes. Unravel the mystery of this madness and stop its spread in this horror retro shooter!
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to Sonar Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sonar Shock.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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Scooby Doo! & Looney Tunes Cartoon Universe: Adventure
Single-player alternative to Sonar Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sonar Shock.
Solve the mystery of Kraken Cove with Scooby, Shaggy and the rest of the Mystery Machine Gang or help Bugs and Daffy discover who is behind the dastardly defective MOCME products that are creating chaos.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to Sonar Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sonar Shock.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.