Single-player games like NineHells
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to NineHells, 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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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to NineHells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NineHells.
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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Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Single-player alternative to NineHells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NineHells.
Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to NineHells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NineHells.
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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Kholat
Single-player alternative to NineHells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NineHells.
The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.
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Invasion of The Halloween Fiends
Single-player alternative to NineHells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NineHells.
Invasion of The Halloween Fiends is a First-Person Retro horror game that takes place on Halloween Night. Strangers keep visiting you looking for candy. Some of them may not be so friendly. Will you be able to survive Halloween Night?
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The Backrooms Project
Single-player alternative to NineHells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NineHells.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
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The Maid
Single-player alternative to NineHells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NineHells.
The Maid is a first-person psychological horror and mystery game that focuses on creating fear and tension in the player.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to NineHells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NineHells.
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.