Single-player games like PROXIMATE
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to PROXIMATE, 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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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to PROXIMATE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROXIMATE.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to PROXIMATE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with PROXIMATE.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to PROXIMATE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with PROXIMATE.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to PROXIMATE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROXIMATE.
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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Iron Lung
Single-player alternative to PROXIMATE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with PROXIMATE.
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
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Narcosis
Single-player alternative to PROXIMATE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROXIMATE.
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
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Scanner Sombre
Single-player alternative to PROXIMATE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROXIMATE.
Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.
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DEAD LETTER DEPT.
Single-player alternative to PROXIMATE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with PROXIMATE.
Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.
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The Thing from Nowhere
Single-player alternative to PROXIMATE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROXIMATE.
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".
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Mouthwashing
Single-player alternative to PROXIMATE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROXIMATE.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.