Single-player games like The Nameless City
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Nameless City, 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: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to The Nameless City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Nameless City.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to The Nameless City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Nameless City.
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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Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
Single-player alternative to The Nameless City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Nameless City.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to The Nameless City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Nameless City.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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Conarium
Single-player alternative to The Nameless City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Nameless City.
Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.
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Transient: Extended Edition
Single-player alternative to The Nameless City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Nameless City.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Nameless City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Nameless City.
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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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to The Nameless City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Nameless City.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.