Single-player games like The Silence
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Silence, 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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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Silence.
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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The Inn-Sanity
Single-player alternative to The Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to The Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Silence.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to The Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Silence.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Abandoned Souls
Single-player alternative to The Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Silence.
Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.
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Sign of Silence
Single-player alternative to The Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Silence.
Sign of Silence is a 4-player cooperative horror game set in dreadful outskirts of Danwille town. Whether you will escape the place or stay here forever depends on cautious and coordinated actions of the whole team!
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SILENT BREATH
Single-player alternative to The Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Silence.
Unpredictable horrors lurk around every corner, forcing you to find the missing people while desperately clinging to survival. In this experience even your own mind can become your enemy. Stay vigilant and keep your voice hushed, or risk becoming another victim of the forest's darkness
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to The Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Silence.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.