Single-player games like The Guilt and the Shadow
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Guilt and the Shadow, 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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Implements of Hell
Single-player alternative to The Guilt and the Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Implements of Hell is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore the mysteries, unlock the secrets, and change the outcome in a slow-paced atmospheric, and extremely horrifying experience.
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Slender Threads
Single-player alternative to The Guilt and the Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
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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Repressed
Single-player alternative to The Guilt and the Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Play as a shadow that’s on a journey inside your mind. Find answers to the questions bothering you. Navigate the maze that is your memory, and ease your mind in the process.
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Cherophobia
Single-player alternative to The Guilt and the Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
You find yourself stranded in a forest after your car breaks down. A short psychological horror game.
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ASTRAL
Single-player alternative to The Guilt and the Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
The future came. You'd think that means the apex of the progress and science, but no. After the epidemic spread all over the world in 2022, 95% of the whole population mutated into horrible creatures without any moral values or humanity and started hunting everything that moves. The planet became empty.
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Hell Is Other People
Single-player alternative to The Guilt and the Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
A psychological horror adventure about social anxiety. Play as a girl with red hair deemed broken by a black-and-white society. Your mind is your inventory. Manage shifting mental states, befriend your unreliable Alter-Ego and decide: force yourself to conform, or isolate?
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Memories of Fireflies
Single-player alternative to The Guilt and the Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Confront your darkness in Memories of Fireflies, a Voxel-based Puzzle Platformer which takes place in a dark and dangerous world that you must venture to discover its secrets. Overcome challenges, enemies and puzzles to get even deeper in this dangerous world.
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Lydia
Single-player alternative to The Guilt and the Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
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Zone of Lacryma
Single-player alternative to The Guilt and the Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Zone of Lacryma is a story driven vertical shmup with 11 levels, highscores, speedrunning, upgrades and more.
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4 Months of You
Single-player alternative to The Guilt and the Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Some memories should be left in the past. A first-person psychological horror game where you explore a slow-paced atmospheric world with graphics inspired by the PS1 era.
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Fork the Rich
Single-player alternative to The Guilt and the Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Billionaires should not exist. It's time to Fork the Rich!