Single-player games like Violent Horror Stories: anthology
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Violent Horror Stories: anthology, 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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Violent Horror Stories 2
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Violent Horror Stories: anthology.
A brand‑new bundle from the creators of the short‑form horror hit Violent Horror Stories. This time the collection revolves around one chilling theme: confinement.
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LunaGenesis
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Violent Horror Stories: anthology.
LunaGenesis is a single-player psychological horror adventure about Scary Moonchild, an avatar of Will who sneaks through a plague-ridden rat-folk town and dives into surreal dreams to expose the Collegium's hidden conspiracy.
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Withered Haven
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Violent Horror Stories: anthology.
Withered Haven is a first-person psychological horror game. After the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, a broken man struggles to endure a collapsing reality. Familiar apparitions drift closer, echoing memories that mask a darkness beyond comprehension.
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Beneath the Quiet: Where It Ends
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Violent Horror Stories: anthology.
Beneath The Quiet: Where It Ends is a first-person psychological horror game. After a bank ultimatum forces you back to your childhood home in Miskolc, Hungary, you return to pack up the past, only to uncover buried trauma, unsettling memories, and a mind you can no longer trust.
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Pitfall Protocol
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Violent Horror Stories: anthology.
Navigate an underground warehouse, approve special items, and eliminate anomalies over a tense 7-day contract or face termination.
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Witching Hour
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Violent Horror Stories: anthology.
Witching Hour is a horror story that takes you out of your family home and across the quiet town of Hollow Hills. Your fate depends on making difficult choices, your relationship with your family, and confrontations with the matriarch of the town’s affliction with witchcraft, Lucilia.
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What Happened to Lily?
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Violent Horror Stories: anthology.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Violent Horror Stories: anthology.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit launches you into a new open-world landscape behind the wheel of the world's fastest and most beautiful cars. From Criterion, the award-winning studio behind the Burnout series, Hot Pursuit will redefine racing games for a whole new generation.
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Papers, Please
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Violent Horror Stories: anthology.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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A Plague Tale: Innocence
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Violent Horror Stories: anthology.
Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history.
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Second Second
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Second Second is a Roguelike card game without drawing cards. Explore randomly generated worlds, defeat monsters, collect valuable cards and add the best ones to your deck. The battles are not based on luck, so prepare to put your skills to the test.
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Voltage High Society
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Violent Horror Stories: anthology.
A first-person Metroidvania where you fight with your fists. No guns. Explore a prison island crawling with cybernetic horrors, rip new abilities from what you kill, and punch your way to freedom. Inspired by Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
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No, I'm not a Human
Single-player alternative to Violent Horror Stories: anthology — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Violent Horror Stories: anthology.
WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.