Single-player games like RATSHAKER™
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to RATSHAKER™, 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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Epilogue
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RATSHAKER™.
In Anomalist’s story, you and Finn chase an anomaly on a planet, experiencing the mood swings of a mysterious entity that devours victims with mind games and imprisons them in its own dimension. Your choices lead to different endings
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Alyanom
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with RATSHAKER™.
EXPLORE 6 entropic gateways ranging from a liminal swimming pool to an empty art museum with up to 4 friends. MEMORIZE before they change each loop, then CATALOG if any ANOMALIES occur. Spaces shift from horrific entities to comedic encounters, we have no idea what's in there, that's your job.
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AJ's Anomaly
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with RATSHAKER™.
First-person anomaly horror. Play as Amelia Jalisco, a fashion designer investigating her gallery the night before a big exhibition. After months of exhausting work and a series of troubled business relationships, she may be starting to lose her mind.
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sussy babies: reborn
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with RATSHAKER™.
Sussy Babies: Reborn is a psychological horror experience, where you and your friend get trapped in a mysterious mine system, the deeper you go, the stranger the mines become, and the more challenging it gets to find your way out.
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Buried Life
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RATSHAKER™.
1997. After a sudden mine collapse, you find yourself trapped inside an abandoned Soviet research complex where classified experiments were once conducted. Explore underground laboratories, uncover forgotten secrets, and discover why the facility was buried along with everything it contained.
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Horror School Story
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RATSHAKER™.
Immerse yourself in the foreboding atmosphere of Enspire School of Digital Art, brought to life with realistic graphics. Solve intricate puzzles and face psychological challenges to progress through the nightmarish school environment. FACE YOUR FEAR and ESCAPE THE NIGHT.
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Liminal Department
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with RATSHAKER™.
Trapped in what seems to be an endless hospital department. Carefully observe your surroundings in each loop to escape the Liminal Department
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Deadhead: Autorail
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RATSHAKER™.
Learn what a hostile workplace truly feels like on this ever-changing haunted train. Can you trust yourself to make the right decisions? Will you figure out the train's dark secrets on this journey or the next?
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with RATSHAKER™.
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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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with RATSHAKER™.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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PT+
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with RATSHAKER™.
Use virtual reality to learn how to stretch and exercise your neck
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Mouthwashing
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RATSHAKER™.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
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Negative Atmosphere
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with RATSHAKER™.
Explore the depths of the Rusanov, pull whatever resources you can out of its guts, and run.
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MALPRAXIS™
Single-player alternative to RATSHAKER™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with RATSHAKER™.
MALPRAXIS™ is a dialogue-heavy sci-fi detective game where you play an experimental medical robot aboard a failing starship. Diagnose patients, investigate suspicious incidents and piece together what is happening to the crew.