Single-player games like The Caribou Trail
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Caribou Trail, 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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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Caribou Trail.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Drift
Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Caribou Trail.
Stranded on a desolate deep-space outpost, your mission gone horrifically wrong, you must now face an unspeakable, monstrous foe. Explore the station's dark recesses, survive terrifying encounters, and confront your own tormented past in this narrative sci-fi horror experience.
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It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Caribou Trail.
It Never Leaves You One year after the death of his family, Max is looking for a new beginning. But after an accident in the dense forest, his friend Jack has disappeared. In Chapter 1, explore a dilapidated hospital where reality merges with madness. What is real and what is a hallucination?
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Caribou Trail.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Caribou Trail.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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Last Days of Lazarus
Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Caribou Trail.
After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.
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Thirty Flights of Loving
Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Caribou Trail.
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 Last Case of John Morley
Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Caribou Trail.
Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.
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Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina)
Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Caribou Trail.
Explore 17th century Canadian wilderness through the eyes of Jeanne, a French woman who crossed the Atlantic to start anew and Maikan, an Innu hunter trying to discover what’s disturbing the forest. Your choices will shape the traits of the protagonists in this narrative single-player experience.