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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 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication — Steam game cover

    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…

    2024Adventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs — Steam game cover

    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.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bughouse — Steam game cover

    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!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Maid of Sker — Steam game cover

    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!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure4.74 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Uventa — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018IndieViolentGore0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Arrogation: Unlight of Day — Steam game cover

    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.

    2023IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Amnesia: The Dark Descent — Steam game cover

    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.

    2010ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Penumbra Overture — Steam game cover

    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.

    2009ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
  10. 10
    Shenmue I & II — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018ActionAdventureRPG5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shenmue III — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hex Bots — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →