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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Outlast
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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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...
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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHADOW.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to SHADOW — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with SHADOW.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.