Single-player games like Near Death
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Near Death, 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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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to Near Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Near Death.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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The Solus Project
Single-player alternative to Near Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Near Death.
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Near Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Near Death.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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Kona
Single-player alternative to Near Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Near Death.
Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.
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ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL
Single-player alternative to Near Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Near Death.
Explore a frozen, mysterious land in this top-down survival adventure. Gather resources, craft tools, and fight to stay alive as you uncover a story of memory and redemption. Try to escape The Hollow.
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Miasmata
Single-player alternative to Near Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Near Death.
Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.
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Betrayer
Single-player alternative to Near Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Near Death.
Betrayer is a first person action adventure game that takes you to the New World at the turn of the 17th century.The year is 1604. You sailed from England expecting to join a struggling colony on the coast of Virginia. Instead, you find only ghosts and mysteries. What catastrophe blighted the land and drained it of color and life?
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to Near Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Near Death.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Near Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Near Death.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Near Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Near Death.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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The Thing: Remastered
Single-player alternative to Near Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Near Death.
The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing
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The Novelist
Single-player alternative to Near Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Near Death.
The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.