Single-player games like Night Shift
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Night Shift, 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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Homesick
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Shift.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
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OneShot
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Shift.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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The Way
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Shift.
Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.
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DreadOut
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Shift.
DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night Shift.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
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Kairo
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Shift.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
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Stories Untold
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Shift.
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
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Silence of the Sleep
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Shift.
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
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1000 Amps
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Shift.
Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.
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Space Robot Samurai Zombie Slayer
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Night Shift.
We are not alone in the universe, its filled with Zombies! To combat them mankind invented their most efficient weapon yet: the Space Robot Samurai Zombie Slayer. ONLY YOU can pilot the powerful Space Robot Samurai Zombie Slayer to fight the Space Zombie horde!
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Occurrence at JCR Outpost
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Shift.
A scientific mission in Antarctica goes awry when something is released from beneath the ice! Who is friend? Who is foe? Only you can solve the mystery of the Occurrence at JCR Outpost!
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Space Ghost Pirate Zombie Slayer
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Night Shift.
Is there intelligent life in the universe? Of course not, it's filled with Zombies! Sensing the opportunity for plunder, the Ghost Pirates have taken to the stars on their ethereal ships. Now it is up to YOU to take command of the Space Ghost Pirate Zombie Slayer fleet and lead them against the Zombie menace!