Single-player games like Abrasion
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Abrasion, 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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Nyctophobia
Single-player alternative to Abrasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abrasion.
A short Horror game about navigating a pitch-black urban environment, using limited sources of light.
- 2
We Happy Few
Single-player alternative to Abrasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abrasion.
From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.
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Freedom's eye
Single-player alternative to Abrasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abrasion.
You have found yourself within this god forsaken prison. The people around you don't seem human... They don't look good or trustworthy... But you share the same goal, freedom.
- 4
Please Duology
Single-player alternative to Abrasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abrasion.
A compilation of two slow-paced, cosmic horror walking simulators, to be completed in under an hour. Please makes you maintain a power station and ignore the noises from the main engine, while Please Follow has you explore the trenches of a losing war, exposing your mind to visions of another world.
- 5
Refund Me If You Can
Single-player alternative to Abrasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abrasion.
One maze, one monster tracking you down, will you have the courage and dexterity to escape this nightmare in less than two hours ?
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The Guard
Single-player alternative to Abrasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abrasion.
You are on the night shift at the mall. While you were taking your post, your partner went missing. All the time you hear some kind of noise. You need to find out their origin and find your partner. As you pass, you will need to find the keys and open locked rooms.
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Now You See - A Hand Painted Horror Adventure
Single-player alternative to Abrasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abrasion.
NoW YoU SEE is a story driven, first-person, point & click, horror adventure. You must escape!!! Explore the house, solve fiendish puzzles, uncover horrible secrets and get ready to meet the family. STORY. PUZZLES. GORE.
- 8
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Abrasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abrasion.
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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Foghorns Drown
Single-player alternative to Abrasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Abrasion.
You're a ferryman in Birchwood, a remote village isolated beyond a lake veiled in thick fog. Mysteries and folklore haunt your dreams in this narrative-driven psychological horror game.