Single-player games like They Breathe
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to They Breathe, 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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Hauntasy
Single-player alternative to They Breathe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with They Breathe.
Do you believe in ghosts? A wealthy Baron and Baroness offer you $1,000,000 to survive seven nights inside their haunted estate. Watch the house, conserve your resources, and make it to dawn. Survive HAUNTASY, and the money is yours.
- 2
Outbreak: Endless Nightmares
Single-player alternative to They Breathe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
The nightmare continues for Lydia and her fellow survivors. Experience true horror in this co-op survival horror roguelike.
- 3
Emissary Zero
Single-player alternative to They Breathe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with They Breathe.
Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.
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Directive 8020
Single-player alternative to They Breathe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with They Breathe.
Earth is dying and humanity is running out of time. 12 light years from home, Tau Ceti f offers a small sliver of hope. When the colony ship Cassiopeia crash lands on the planet, its crew soon realize they are far from being alone. In space, death takes many forms.
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Daylight
Single-player alternative to They Breathe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to They Breathe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to They Breathe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to They Breathe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Residue: Final Cut
Single-player alternative to They Breathe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with They Breathe.
Up-tempo adventuring and family drama ensue when the survivors of a disastrous charity project return to the dead ships in the former Aral Sea in Uzbekistan. Residue tells a personal story by letting you explore a larger-than-life, ridiculously detailed rendition of one of our world's most fascinating (and horrifying) locations.