Single-player games like Soul Essence
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Soul Essence, 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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In Hope Voiden
Single-player alternative to Soul Essence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
A forbidden warzone. Twelve soldiers. One life each. In this first person survival horror, death is permanent and the world remembers. Explore a surreal, trench-ridden hellscape where every action matters - and every death uncovers a new piece of a haunting mystery.
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Find, Eat, Hide: Till Dawn
Single-player alternative to Soul Essence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Soul Essence.
This game is a horror survival single-player game. Avoid ghosts, find food, eat and survive. In each round, buildings, furnishings, and food are placed with some degree of randomness. Survival times stack. The longest survival time is saved.
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Submarine Homesick Blues
Single-player alternative to Soul Essence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
A real-time submarine management and survival game with tactical pause, where you manage crew, systems, and resources under constant pressure.
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Shaft 29
Single-player alternative to Soul Essence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
You are alone in Shaft 29...Descend into old, pitch-black, and hazardous labyrinth to restore the failing power grid. Scavenge the dark for scrap, repair components in safe room, and brave anomalies hiding in the depths. Keep the lights on, and keep moving down...
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The Subminer
Single-player alternative to Soul Essence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
An atmospheric underwater drilling roguelite beneath the icy crust of Enceladus. Pilot your submarine, explore the depths, mine resources through procedural caves and upgrade your base. Each dive is darker and more dangerous, and you must face the terrors lurking in the shadows. Live. Dive. Repeat.
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Ivory Cage
Single-player alternative to Soul Essence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
Descent with your team into the depths of an abandoned theme park to repair its broken machinery, and survive what's still down there.
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Stash Mayhem
Single-player alternative to Soul Essence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Soul Essence.
Run a medieval warehouse at full speed. Items keep arriving and customers keep ordering: organize everything your way and deliver before their patience runs out. In this sorting roguelite, the only map is in your head. Know where everything is, or just embrace the mayhem.
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A Quiet House in Flatbush
Single-player alternative to Soul Essence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
Based on real events: A Quiet House in Flatbush is a survival retro VHS horror game where you are trying to escape from a serial killer's house of horror - collect items, use your ingenuity to solve puzzles, bypass traps and overcome obstacles, evade the killer who is stalking the halls and escape!
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The Cozy Tree Co.
Single-player alternative to Soul Essence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Cozy Tree Co. is a relaxing game about chopping, decorating and selling Christmas trees. Search the winter wonderland for the perfect tree, get creative with your decorating, and sell your creations to spread holiday cheer!