Single-player games like Vault
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Vault, 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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Altitude Zero
Single-player alternative to Vault — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vault.
An atmospheric horror game where you pilot an old hot air balloon through a desolate land in search of mysterious abandoned stations.
- 2
DEAD LETTER DEPT.
Single-player alternative to Vault — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Vault.
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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Iron Lung
Single-player alternative to Vault — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vault.
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
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Event[0]
Single-player alternative to Vault — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vault.
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Vault — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vault.
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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Proteus
Single-player alternative to Vault — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vault.
Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.
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Thirty Flights of Loving
Single-player alternative to Vault — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vault.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Vault — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vault.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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travis, the frog
Single-player alternative to Vault — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vault.
travis, the frog is a lightning fast speedrunning platformer in which you are a frog on a skateboard.