Single-player games like The Night Museum
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Night Museum, 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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CULTIC
Single-player alternative to The Night Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Night Museum.
Death is only the beginning. Crawl from your grave and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.
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HROT
Single-player alternative to The Night Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Night Museum.
HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.
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DEAD TRASH
Single-player alternative to The Night Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Night Museum.
Years into a brutal lockdown, a once-thriving city lies in ruins, abandoned by its government and overrun by vicious, mindless infected. Grab your hammer, collect your nerves and enter the mayhem.
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Blood: One Unit Whole Blood
Single-player alternative to The Night Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Night Museum.
You carved your soul to shreds in servitude to a dark god, but false promises and betrayal were your only reward. Now you have a score to settle and it will be measured in blood! Experience the madness in one carnage-soaked package! All the gore, all the unholy war! Zombies, gargoyles, hellhounds and blood-crazed hordes of horrors await!
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Bloodwash
Single-player alternative to The Night Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Night Museum.
A serial killer is terrorizing the city, and Sara's deadbeat boyfriend hasn't done the laundry. Can Sara survive a late-night trip to the laundromat, or will the Womb Ripper perform an early delivery?
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Quake
Single-player alternative to The Night Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Night Museum.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Single-player alternative to The Night Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Night Museum.
Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.
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WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
Single-player alternative to The Night Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Night Museum.
Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.
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Deal of the Dead Final Cut
Single-player alternative to The Night Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Night Museum.
Deal of the Dead: Final Cut is a Solitaire-style, survival horror, card game rendered in a unique, hand-drawn, art style. Fight your way through randomly shuffled decks of cards and escape from a zombie-infested city set in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Death by Deduction
Single-player alternative to The Night Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Night Museum.
Death by Deduction is a unique blend of logic puzzle and classic murder mystery set in an old English manor during the 1970s. Explore the manor, examine evidence, and question suspects to deduce who the murderer is in "Death by Deduction".
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Astro Mining
Single-player alternative to The Night Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Night Museum.
Build a small mining colony in deep space and defend it from alien invaders as you extract precious minerals from asteroids in Astro Mining.