Single-player games like Envelope
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Envelope, 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 Jurassic Labyrinth
Single-player alternative to Envelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Envelope.
A psychological horror puzzle game set in a living labyrinth that adapts to your choices. Solve shifting mechanisms, navigate ever-changing corridors, and evade a relentless presence that learns your behavior as you try to escape.
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The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
Single-player alternative to Envelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Envelope.
Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Envelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Envelope.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Bughouse
Single-player alternative to Envelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Envelope.
Play as Christopher, a kid left home alone with a terrifying STALKER on the loose! Try and survive in this 80's, PS1 inspired, Home Invasion Survival Horror game - OR DIE TRYING!
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to Envelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Envelope.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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Uventa
Single-player alternative to Envelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Envelope.
The tragic fate brings you, a simple night guard, to an abandoned school. Plunge into a horrifying story and get to the bottom of the secret that this spectre of the long-gone Soviet era has in store.
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Arrogation: Unlight of Day
Single-player alternative to Envelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Envelope.
Arrogation: Unlight of Day is a psychological horror game set in World War II. You will play as a lone reporter searching for his lost family in an abandoned village from 80s China. Beyond darkness, you will find nightmarish creatures and secrets from the long lost Imperial Japanese Army.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Envelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Envelope.
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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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Envelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Envelope.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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Shenmue I & II
Single-player alternative to Envelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Envelope.
SEGA®’s most requested re-release of all time finally comes to a new generation. Shenmue delivers an epic story of revenge within a unique open world that is still unrivalled in depth and detail. Return to the epic saga that defined modern gaming. The saga begins…again.
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Shenmue III
Single-player alternative to Envelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Envelope.
Shenmue III sees the eagerly anticipated continuation of the epic story-driven saga. Take control of Ryo Hazuki, a teenage martial artist, determined to unravel the mystery behind his father's murder and to exact revenge on the killer.
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Hex Bots
Single-player alternative to Envelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Envelope.
You are hunted by a rogue computer program. Avoid the bot either by yourself or cooperate with others while attempting to collect electrical components around the world to activate beacons to open the escape hatch.