Single-player games like Subterranauts
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Subterranauts, 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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PILGRIM
Single-player alternative to Subterranauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Subterranauts.
Pilgrim is a medieval-based, co-op horror, adventure. Can you and your friends make it to the end of The Road?
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Murky Divers
Single-player alternative to Subterranauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Subterranauts.
Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
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Cursed Companions
Single-player alternative to Subterranauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Subterranauts.
If we say the wrong words... WE DIE! This game kills you with your own voices! Online co-op where everyone gets a forbidden word, say it and you kill your friends. Explore spooky dungeons, cast spells and defeat monsters with your voices. 8-player Co-op Mode. 16-player Traitor Mode
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UNDERWARD
Single-player alternative to Subterranauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Subterranauts.
UNDERWARD is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Investigators must carry «TEST-SUBJECT» monsters from a deadly underground abandoned hospital ward.
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Forsaken Frontiers
Single-player alternative to Subterranauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Subterranauts.
Step into the frozen unknown in Forsaken Frontiers, a cooperative analog horror adventure set in the unforgiving embrace of an everlasting winter.
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Containment Corp, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Subterranauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Subterranauts.
A co-op horror game where you team up with friends to hunt anomalies and collect rare loot. Customize your loadouts, your looks, and get to work!
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Zort
Single-player alternative to Subterranauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Subterranauts.
Zort is an action, adventure, and horror game that can be played with up to 4 people. Explore maps with your friends and have fun while escaping from various creatures. Experience a realistic horror experience with in-game voice chat with your friends!
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Species: Unknown
Single-player alternative to Subterranauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Subterranauts.
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Subterranauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Subterranauts.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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R.E.P.O.
Single-player alternative to Subterranauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Subterranauts.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Subterranauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subterranauts.
You find yourself in a strange world with no idea how you got there. As you explore more, the world gets increasingly convoluted and unstable. You are now in... The Backrooms.
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Lethal Company
Single-player alternative to Subterranauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Subterranauts.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.