Single-player games like The Night Guard
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Night Guard, 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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Project Phoenix
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Night Guard.
The player finds himself in an abandoned Soviet bunker, built at the height of the Cold War. The protagonist is a stalker, a hunter for artifacts and secrets of the past. He entered the bunker, attracted by legends of secret experiments and the mysterious disappearance of all personnel.
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Final Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Night Guard.
A year after the disaster, the bunker's life support systems fail critically. Communication with the outside world is completely lost. You are a mechanical engineer, awakened in your quarters by a piercing siren, alone and cut off from the world.
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Dark Resolve
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Night Guard.
Immerse yourself in a chilling nightmare where the darkest corners of the past come to life to haunt you. This is a tense first-person psychological horror game that transports you to the heart of an abandoned police station. .
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Midnight Cruise
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Night Guard.
As you progress, you'll need to find keys and open locked doors. Solve puzzles and find passages. A first-person game with elements of horror. Explore the ship and its cabins, collect batteries for your flashlight. Ability to use the camera Solve puzzles. The darkness can conceal various secrets.
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Dire Echo
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Night Guard.
Dire Echo is a psychological horror walking simulator that immerses players in the eerie and oppressive atmosphere of abandoned deep space.
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Cauldron Inn
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Night Guard.
Trying to save yourselfe from something unknown but clearly malevolent, you hide in a mysterious inn. However, your temporary refuge turns out to be a trap, and now you must find a way to escape.
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Veil of Mist
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Night Guard.
Life ends… but the story doesn’t. After death, you find yourself in a strange, distorted place where normal logic no longer applies. Explore, hide, solve puzzles, and try to figure out exactly where you’ve ended up.
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The Guard
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Night Guard.
You are on the night shift at the mall. While you were taking your post, your partner went missing. All the time you hear some kind of noise. You need to find out their origin and find your partner. As you pass, you will need to find the keys and open locked rooms.
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The Witch's House
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Night Guard.
There is an old house on the edge of a small town. All the locals have always avoided it, as strange and mysterious events constantly happen there. This time, what happened in this house made the whole city shudder with fear.
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Ghost Village
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Night Guard.
My grandmother was originally from the village, but after the environmental disaster that occurred 30 years ago near their settlement, she moved to our city and lived with us.
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Mission: Aliens
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Night Guard.
Sergeant, last night we received a signal that an unknown aircraft of extraterrestrial origin had crashed in the taiga. The locals assured us that at the crash site they observed five creatures very similar to humans, only with gray skin and large almond-shaped eyes.
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DrugRunner
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Drug Runner is a 3D game in which you have to run along the road and dodge obstacles, on the way collecting bonuses and coins that give you points. If you can jump over the barrier by pressing the "space bar".
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Battle Robots
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Night Guard.
Do you like fast games with the grinding of metal? Try to take part in fights with robots. Your task is to come out of the battle victorious, deftly inflicting crushing blows on your opponent. Upgrade your armor, and then head to the arena to fight. Start playing now!
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Sleep
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Night Guard.
Nastya, she is 18 years old. Every day she draws images of the monsters that come to her and describes them. And every night, Nastya has a dream where she fights her monsters. And with each dream, you have to get out of the dream.
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307 Racing
Single-player alternative to The Night Guard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Night Guard.
Circuit racing is the common name for several types of car races, held on special tracks with hard surfaces. The main feature of such competitions is that the track has a closed form (ring).