Single-player games like The Secret Story
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Secret Story, 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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ARCHIVE 1996
Single-player alternative to The Secret Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
Tonight, you are not just helping Serena survive. You are deciding whether she will live, lose her mind, or vanish in this hotel forever.
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Protocol Five
Single-player alternative to The Secret Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
Protocol Filve is a surreal first-person adventure with multiple endings, you will find yourself in a world where some rotten things want to kill you. Some choices along the way drastically and irreversibly change the game, leading to one of the 5 possible endings.
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The Drained Goddess
Single-player alternative to The Secret Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
The Drained Goddess is a first-person survival horror game focused on combat system and side story exploration. You will need to fight with many unique enemies and investigate the twisted fate of our main character. Finally you can put different endings to the story.
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The Tau Ceti Terminus
Single-player alternative to The Secret Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
Explore an alien planet with adverse conditions and dangerous life. Solve relevant puzzles and repair your ship. Along the way uncover an ancient story in this cerebral sci-fi exploration and survival VR game. Takes full advantage of nearly every aspect of VR.
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Black Honey
Single-player alternative to The Secret Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
Explore an open-world 100 Aker Woods while outwitting a twisted Winnie-the-Pooh who wants to eat you. Upgrade yourself and craft elaborate traps to stop him using black honey.
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Fortress of Hell
Single-player alternative to The Secret Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Secret Story.
Can you survive inside a fortress full of monsters, and free the many prisoners (including your own girlfriend!) from their unfortunate fate? Play as up to 4 different parties - you can even play evil heroes from darkness - and find out!
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Venge
Single-player alternative to The Secret Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
Get ready to explore a movie studio that vanished into thin air, only to find yourself trapped in a twisted, alternate dimension where creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to ensure you never see the light of day again...
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DO NOT OPEN
Single-player alternative to The Secret Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Secret Story.
DO NOT OPEN is a terrifying short and paced first-person escape-room experience, based on randomness in puzzle combinations, and classic survival-horror mechanics. Each game will contain different rooms and puzzle combination, being different to solve.