Single-player games like 報い-Retribution
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to 報い-Retribution, 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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VERY BAD DREAMS
Single-player alternative to 報い-Retribution — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with 報い-Retribution.
Very Bad Dreams is an intense and demanding experience that will test your nerves. Forget everything you thought you knew about horror games, because Very Bad Dreams transcends the boundaries of the gaming experience. Developed by an independent French studio,
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The Night Of The Inquisitor
Single-player alternative to 報い-Retribution — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with 報い-Retribution.
A VHS/PS1 Survival Horror Experience! Play as Emilia, a young woman cursed by an ancient rosary, transported into the Realm of the Inquisitor, a surreal dimension filled with the ghosts victims of the Inquisitor himself. Solve puzzles, free ghosts, and escape the Inquisitor!
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Backrooms Level X
Single-player alternative to 報い-Retribution — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with 報い-Retribution.
Enter the disturbing world of Backrooms Level X, a first-person narrative survival horror game that immerses you in an endless labyrinth of desolate and liminal spaces. 13 levels and giant enemies await you in this unique experience.
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Flesh Made Fear
Single-player alternative to 報い-Retribution — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with 報い-Retribution.
Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.
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Weird Cinema
Single-player alternative to 報い-Retribution — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
If you were put in a horror movie, would you survive? Play multiple roles in various classic horror films. Try to survive in horror films by decrypting and fighting
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The Legend Returns
Single-player alternative to 報い-Retribution — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with 報い-Retribution.
Can you survive the return of the legend? A relentless killer is stalking you, and no one believes your story. The only way out? Perform the ritual… or become the next victim. Run, hide, and fight for your life in this brutal PS1-inspired slasher horror experience!
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Retro Mystery Club Vol.2: The Beppu Case
Single-player alternative to 報い-Retribution — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with 報い-Retribution.
The stage is set in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, for the latest installment in this retro mystery series! There, hearts that pass each other by can’t help but grow twisted… Uncover the truth behind a mysterious death with your junior detective, Ken!
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The Night of the Scissors
Single-player alternative to 報い-Retribution — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with 報い-Retribution.
Scrap hunting season has gone wrong, VHS slasher survival horror.
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6days
Single-player alternative to 報い-Retribution — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with 報い-Retribution.
In 1979, a man named Masao Satomi was involved in an accident. He was taken to the hospital and woke up safe and sound, but had amnesia. When he wonders if there is any memory he can recall, he recalls an intense childhood memory from 16 years ago.