Single-player games like Decay: The Mare
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Decay: The Mare, 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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Stuff to do
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
A puzzle horror game inspired by the works of David Lynch and Harlan Ellison. Three developers disappeared inside their own game. Now you are stuck in it as well. Find them and discover what happened. Do stuff. Check your pulse. Escape the rabbit hole.
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Rusty Lake: Roots
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
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The Cat Lady
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
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The Tartarus Key
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her every move. Whether she and her companions live or die, and find the truth behind their abduction, is up to you in this first-person mystery thriller.
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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
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The Room Three
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
Lured to a remote island, you find yourself confined within the rooms of an ominous mansion. You must draw upon all your puzzle-solving ability to navigate a series of trials devised by a mysterious figure known only as “The Craftsman”. Do you have what it takes to escape?
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Fran Bow
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
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Slender Threads
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
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Scratches - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
Dark Legends surround the old abandoned Blackwood house, secluded far away in the northern wastelands. For writer Michael Arthate, this cold, solitary atmosphere is fodder for his restless imagination. But Michael soon becomes distracted by the mysteries offered up, as he follows a trail exploring and delving into the secrets of the past.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
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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Nancy Drew®: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
Catch this train — it’s your ticket to solving a century-old mystery!
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Post Mortem
Single-player alternative to Decay: The Mare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Decay: The Mare.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…