Single-player games like The Remains
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Remains, 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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Xenoids
Single-player alternative to The Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Remains.
Xenoids is a survival horror game where you have to face a hostile life form in the confined space of a spaceship.
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The Outlast Trials
Single-player alternative to The Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Remains.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
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CRYO
Single-player alternative to The Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Remains.
CRYO is a multiplayer co-op survival horror for 1-4 players. You have been deployed by your company to various locations around the Antarctic due to communication issues. What awaits you in these dark, remote regions is far more sinister than a technical fault...
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Backrooms Lost Runners
Single-player alternative to The Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Remains.
Backrooms Lost Runners is a co-op survival horror with team play, voice-reactive AI, and immersive puzzles. This isn’t a “walking simulator”: explore liminal spaces, outsmart entities, and remember—even a whisper can give you away.
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The Experiment
Single-player alternative to The Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Remains.
The tests went wrong. He has been transformed. It is hostile toward others. You have been assigned the task of killing the horrifying creature. Listen closely as it could be around any corner. (Game includes Remastered + Classic versions)
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Escape From Monster
Single-player alternative to The Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Remains.
You woke up in a dusty room, in an unknown place, with no memory of how you got here. Your pockets are empty, and there is something outside the door producing frightening sounds.
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Dead Space™ 3
Single-player alternative to The Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Remains.
Journey across space to the icy planet of Tau Volantis with Isaac Clarke and Sgt. John Carver to discover and destroy the source of the Necromorph outbreak.
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Deathground
Single-player alternative to The Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Remains.
A 1-4 player co-op horror game that throws you into a desperate fight for survival against deadly dinosaurs. Run, hide and work together to complete missions and uncover the secrets buried within the abandoned AEON research facility. Can you and your friends make it out alive?