Single-player games like Nevermind
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Nevermind, 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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The Obsessive Shadow
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nevermind.
The Obsessive Shadow is a Survival Horror Game about a stalker you can't exactly Identify. With nothing but your eyes and a flashlight at your disposal, it's up to you to survive whatever horrific person or thing is out there watching you...
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迷禁 Lost in Abyss
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nevermind.
Lost in Abyss is a first-person VR horror game about a man trapped in a twisted and terrifying dream. Warm memories and terrible realities are intertwined and tragedy unfolds as you explore a long-forgotten nightmare.
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Noise
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nevermind.
The USSR era is coming to its end – it is 1988. The radio amateur catches a strange signal that emits incomprehensible noises. It is broadcast around the clock and only sometimes a human voice makes its way through the air. You will have to uncover terrifying secrets about this enigmatic signal.
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Gray Dawn
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nevermind.
Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.
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Don't Knock Twice
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nevermind.
Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. One knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. Supports VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for the ultimate horror experience!
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Deadness
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nevermind.
Deadness is a VR game of the horror genre that will literally knock you off your feet. Experience real fear and anxiety helplessly confined to a wheelchair in a super-realistic VR environment. Not for the faint of heart! This is no game anymore!
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Phasmophobia
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nevermind.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
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Stifled - Echolocation Horror Mystery
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nevermind.
Stifled is a multi-award winning, Sound-based Stealth Thriller Mystery, where SOUND is the only way you SEE and the enemies HEAR your fear through your microphone input. Microphone input and VR Features are optional.
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Psychonauts
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nevermind.
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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cell
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nevermind.
You will start from a weak life, defeat all the enemies, eat all the food, and become stronger. Maybe your strength is too weak, but thinking makes you incredibly powerful.
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The Cells
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nevermind.
Put the colored cubes in rows both horizontally and vertically. The completed series is erased and frees the place.
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7 Meters away. Oscar and the Cell of the Soul
Single-player alternative to Nevermind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nevermind.
"7 Meters Away. Óscar and the Cell of the Soul" is a point and click demo game in which you must help Óscar escape from a mysterious cell by solving various puzzles to discover why he has been imprisoned before it's too late.