Single-player games like SHADOW
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to 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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The Radio Tower
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
Your job is to climb the tallest towers in the world to maintain them, this time you were called urgently to fix the only tower providing cover to the small Crimsonpine city that is currently on quarantine.
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HAIGLA
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
Confined to a wheelchair, explore a hospital pulled into a distorted world beneath reality. A slow psychological horror focused on exploration, tension, and the unsettling atmosphere of this strange place.
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Norbert's Diary
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
Norbert's Diary is a retro-themed psychological horror game set in the 2000s. You will learn the story of Norbert, the guy who opened a gas station in the wilderness. You have to earn money and serve customers, face danger and scream!
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Bigfoot Forest
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
Bigfoot Forest - a first-person indie horror game. While traveling in your car, you run out of gas and find yourself far away from any civilized locations at night, with only woods and a small town nearby.
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
In Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach, play as Gregory, a young boy who’s been trapped overnight inside of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex. With the help of Freddy himself, Gregory must uncover the secrets of the Pizzaplex, learn the truth, and survive until dawn.
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From The Darkness
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
From the darkness is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an old Soviet abandoned apartment.
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Hollow Cocoon
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
"Trapped in a cocoon, the silkworm weaves her final dream." Hollow Cocoon is a first-person horror adventure game set in 1980s Japan. Immerse yourself in meticulously recreated environments as you venture into the depths of unspeakable horrors that await you.
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Corpse Party
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...