Single-player games like HOLE
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to HOLE, 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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Forest Keeper
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Survival Horror set on a sinister island. As a lone forest keeper, you'll unravel its grim secrets from the eerie backstory of a royal vacation home turned nightmare. Journey through the changing seasons, from day to night. Confront nightmarish abominations that emerge in the winter cold.
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Trepang2
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.
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Quantum Hell
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Take on the role of a journalist trapped in a ruthless quantum universe where you'll need a diverse arsenal and the manipulation of quantum physics to survive and progress. Quick thinking, speed, and precision will be essential to surviving in this retro style physics FPS
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Incursion Red River
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with HOLE.
IRR is a tactical PvE Co-Op extract shooter set in a de-stabilized and immersive modern-day Vietnam. As a PMC for a mysterious organization, deal with 3 factions that stand to gain from the chaos. Engage in ruthless combat, plan your deployment, and explore the world as your journey unfolds.
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Far Far West
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Yee-haw, Cowboys! Team up in this chaotic 1-4 player co-op shooter. Journey to the Far Far West to blast monsters, sling spells, complete missions, and collect bounties. Work as a team to get in, get paid and get out (mostly) alive.
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Into the Radius VR
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.
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Flesh & Wire
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Delve into the psychological roots of the POSTAL series in Flesh & Wire, a horror first person shooter that ventures into the twisted reality of a hapless victim seeking enshrouded answers and grisly vengeance against the crazed gunman who changed her life forever.
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Inner Chains
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with HOLE.
An FPS horror game set in a surreal, dark and deadly biomechanical world never seen before. Humankind is just a small part of a hostile universe. Want to survive? Discover its secrets.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with HOLE.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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Super Motherload
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with HOLE.
Set on Mars in an alternate Cold-War era, Super Motherload is a 1 to 4-player couch co-op digging adventure with storyline by Image Comics' Kurtis Wiebe, a fully voiced cast of Soviet and American characters, and a procedurally-generated world that changes each time you play.
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A Game About Digging A Hole™
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with HOLE.
A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with HOLE.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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Black Mesa
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Relive Half-Life.
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Assassin's Creed® Origins
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with HOLE.
Explore Ancient Egypt in this action-adventure game. Battle powerful enemies, unveil conspiracies, and discover the origin story of the Assassin’s Brotherhood.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Single-player alternative to HOLE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with HOLE.
Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.