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Single-player games like SLACKJAW

Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to SLACKJAW, 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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    Terror Brain: Night Out — Steam game cover

    Terror Brain: Night Out

    Single-player alternative to SLACKJAW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SLACKJAW.

    Terror Brain: Night Out is a Single-Player First-Person Action-Adventure Psychological Horror PC Game where you take on the role of university student Sarah Mitchell while she is trying to understand what happened to her after everything went dark during a night out at the local bar.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SANRI — Steam game cover

    SANRI

    Single-player alternative to SLACKJAW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SLACKJAW.

    SANRI is a first-person psychological horror game where you play a schizophrenic character whose wife disappeared during camp. Face the delusions, solve the mystery and try to find her despite your constantly distorted perception of time-space.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure1.74 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    LOCKOUT — Steam game cover

    LOCKOUT

    Single-player alternative to SLACKJAW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SLACKJAW.

    Taken from your family and abandoned on a remote island, you must survive the horrors left behind. LOCKOUT is a first-person, story-driven horror game about uncovering a secret corporation’s experiments and finding a way home.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Evil is near — Steam game cover

    Evil is near

    Single-player alternative to SLACKJAW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SLACKJAW.

    Evil is Near is a game about a young bartender who gets a job at a mysterious bar, where he is visited by the ghost of a former employee. The ghost reveals the secrets of the establishment and warns him to be careful. You will have to mix cocktails, to survive and uncover the truth.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tales Beyond The Tomb - Route 86 — Steam game cover

    Tales Beyond The Tomb - Route 86

    Single-player alternative to SLACKJAW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SLACKJAW.

    A psychological horror anthology inspired by real-life cases. In Route 86, a group of friends ends up in a remote nightmare. Explore, hide, and survive in this first-person experience with multiple playable characters and rising tension.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Scholar's Mate — Steam game cover

    Scholar's Mate

    Single-player alternative to SLACKJAW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SLACKJAW.

    Scholar's Mate is an immersive first-person horror Escape Room experience that puts you in the shoes of Judith, a young woman who wakes up in the gloomy facilities of a psychiatric hospital.

    2024IndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hollow Cocoon — Steam game cover

    Hollow Cocoon

    Single-player alternative to SLACKJAW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SLACKJAW.

    "Trapped in a cocoon, the silkworm weaves her final dream." Hollow Cocoon is a first-person horror adventure game set in 1980s Japan. Immerse yourself in meticulously recreated environments as you venture into the depths of unspeakable horrors that await you.

    2023IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut — Steam game cover

    Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut

    Single-player alternative to SLACKJAW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SLACKJAW.

    How far would you go if your daughter didn’t come home? Someday You’ll Return: Director’s Cut is a first-person psychological horror. This story-driven game offers enhanced features, an improved story, and additional content. Enter the woods if you dare and begin a search you’ll never forget.

    2023IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resident Evil — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil

    Single-player alternative to SLACKJAW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with SLACKJAW.

    The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Silence of the Sleep — Steam game cover

    Silence of the Sleep

    Single-player alternative to SLACKJAW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SLACKJAW.

    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.

    2014IndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →