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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Pray To The Darkness
Single-player alternative to The Secret Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Secret Story.
Tread the path to redemption or cling to your past. Shape destinies or submit to strangers. New society. New secrets. New path. Pray To The Darkness is a narrative psychological horror exploring the complexity of human fate and the world around us.
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My Dear Neighbor, edition 404
Single-player alternative to The Secret Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Secret Story.
My Dear Neighbor, edition 404 is a survival horror game that tells the story of your neighbor. Go to your neighbor's house and end up in a glitchy nightmare. Fight your way out of this glitched nightmare amid bugs and nightmarish visions in this psychological horror game.
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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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Dark Collection: El and Ellie
Single-player alternative to The Secret Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
Every choice has consequences. Every mistake leaves evidence. Save your family from a nightmare where nothing goes unnoticed.
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Tumbal 1985
Single-player alternative to The Secret Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
Tumbal 1985 is an atmospheric and psychological horror-mystery game set within the confines of an Indonesian tobacco distributor office. Explore, clean, collect, and solve mysteries as a night janitor to uncover the insidious truth behind the paranormal.
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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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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...