Single-player games like Shieven
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Shieven, 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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Beyond The Evil
Single-player alternative to Shieven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shieven.
Beyond the Evil is an psychological horror game that places the player to a hard experience to find who created one supposed plague that might doom the world.
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Wake Inside
Single-player alternative to Shieven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shieven.
Wake Inside is a first-person psychological horror game set in a mysterious mansion where something is listening. Explore the house, uncover its secrets, and find a way out without revealing yourself to whatever is inside.
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The Evaluation
Single-player alternative to Shieven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Shieven.
A first-person horror puzzle game about solving cryptic puzzles and surviving a deadly night inside an abandoned drive-in theater.
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The Strange Lights
Single-player alternative to Shieven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shieven.
You have arrived in a forest where people are rumored to disappear and strange things happen... Locals often see bright flashes and hear strange sounds...
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Vartio
Single-player alternative to Shieven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shieven.
Patrol a haunted forest as a lone medieval guard in this short psychological horror experience. Leave the safety of your watchtower, listen for threats in the dark, and uncover what's lurking beyond the trees—before paranoia consumes you.
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Don't Play This
Single-player alternative to Shieven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shieven.
Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it? A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.
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Clink
Single-player alternative to Shieven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shieven.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
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Pieces of me
Single-player alternative to Shieven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shieven.
“Pieces of Me” is not a classic horror game with jump scares, but a psychological thriller-drama in the walking simulator genre. It is a spin-off of “September 7th”