Single-player games like Joe's Diner
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Joe's Diner, 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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Pineview Drive
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Joe's Diner.
A one-of-a-kind horror shocker – a game aware of your fear!Check out the improvements introduced with Update 2.0!
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Samosbor
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Joe's Diner.
The player will take the role of a liquidator destroying the consequences of Samosbor in the narrow corridors of Gigakhrushchevka.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Joe's Diner.
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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Arizona Sunshine®
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Joe's Diner.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Joe's Diner.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Joe's Diner.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Joe's Diner.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Joe's Diner.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Obscuritas
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Joe's Diner.
When Sarah inherits her great-uncle's old country home, she has no idea about the dark secret she has stumbled upon, and the obscure world it will take her to.
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Bus Mechanic Simulator
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Joe's Diner.
In the Bus Mechanic Simulator you are in the position of an experienced mechanic. In your own bus garage you can maintain, repair, test and restore various true-to-original MAN bus models. Roll up your sleeves!
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Passing Pineview Forest
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Joe's Diner.
Passing Pineview Forest is a free mini-prequel set in the universe of Pineview Drive. Behind the abandoned house on Pineview Drive lies ominous Pineview Forest...
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Professional Farmer 2017
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Get ready for the rural lifestyle! This game is set on your own farm! Enjoy the life of a farmer with all its amazing tasks and challenges! Drive your original vehicles, cultivate your fields, take care of your animals and market your produce! Different seasons and weather conditions guarantee realistic game fun.
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The Secret of Pineview Forest
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Joe's Diner.
The Secret of Pineview Forest is a free prequel to Pineview Drive - Rising Storm. Behind the abandoned house on Pineview Drive lies ominous Pineview Forest...
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Insane
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Joe's Diner.
!nsane is a nod to the cult game "Logical" from the good old Amiga days. It's all about balls and twist locks. You have to arrange the balls in the right order to pick the lock. What sounds simple enough quickly turns out to be a uniquely tricky game.
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Airport Fire Department - The Simulation
Single-player alternative to Joe's Diner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Joe's Diner.
Move out with your team and experience tense missions. As a member of the airport fire department, you and your team extinguish massive aircraft fires and beat a path through the flickering flames.