Single-player games like Phenom
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Phenom, 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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Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
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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Visage
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
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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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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Dead of Darkness
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
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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Pyromaniac
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
Play as Nikolas, a 20-year-old guy who found himself lost in an abandoned city... or so he thought it was at first. Explore the city, defend yourself from monsters, and find answers to what is really going on.
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Lamentum
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Mundaun
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
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MEGA
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
This is a short story about humanity's last attempt to resist nature. Cities lie in ruins, there are traces of huge claws everywhere - once disturbed by people, giants began to wreak havoc around the world. But is there a solution?...
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Climber
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
This is a little adventure in the depths of a mysterious cave. Try on the role of a rescuer and try to save the lives of a team of missing cavers as quickly as possible. You will need concentration, discipline and strong hands, because the owners of these depths do not like uninvited guests.
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On the other side
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
Take on the role of a modern exorcist in this realistic ghost hunting horror. You have to fulfill contracts related to paranormal phenomena. Your main weapon is an old camera that can shoot what is not visible to the human eye.
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Mannequin machine
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
"Mannequin machine" is a first-person psychological horror game with camera effects that tells the story of working in a mannequin factory. Beware of the evil at the heart of the plant, it drives its victims crazy
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Deep Hell
Single-player alternative to Phenom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phenom.
Immerse yourself in a dark dense forest in which terrible inexplicable things happen. You will have to find the missing people's belongings by following the coordinates left in the notes of the missing brother. Someone or something lives in the forest and changes everyone who goes there.