Single-player games like Trace of the Villa
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Trace of the Villa, 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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Rite of Osiris
Single-player alternative to Trace of the Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Trace of the Villa.
Something is hunting you in the dark. Descend into buried Egyptian tombs in a first-person psychological survival horror, where your only light is a dwindling candle and your only hope is whatever scraps you can scavenge and craft before it finds you.
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Nocturne Island Obscuria
Single-player alternative to Trace of the Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
Obscuria 2 is a horror and adventure experience created in Unreal Engine 5, where you will investigate an abandoned island with many secrets, mysteries and scares.
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Hunted Within: The Walls
Single-player alternative to Trace of the Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
Dive into a gripping first-person horror Survival game Where you're trapped in a terrifying towering maze. Explore, craft tools and Fight by day, watch out over night when the Darkness hunts you within the walls. Uncover the truth behind the walls and Escape, or become a part of the nightmare.
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PENANCE
Single-player alternative to Trace of the Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
PENANCE is a single-player experience where you play as Calen, a former ranger trapped in a place that feels familiar, yet wrong. Day and night levels bring different dangers, forcing you to fight with whatever you can find to survive and uncover the truth behind it.
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Dualis
Single-player alternative to Trace of the Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
Dualis is a sci-fi horror thriller whose story takes you to an underground research complex. You will have to fight not only for your life, but also to understand if you really exist. What is consciousness and personality are the questions you will have to ask yourself.
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My Putrid Ponies
Single-player alternative to Trace of the Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
A zombie ponies game where you have to survive with a shotgun.
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Bughouse
Single-player alternative to Trace of the Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
Play as Christopher, a kid left home alone with a terrifying STALKER on the loose! Try and survive in this 80's, PS1 inspired, Home Invasion Survival Horror game - OR DIE TRYING!
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Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut
Single-player alternative to Trace of the Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
Tunguska: The Visitation is a single player top-down shooter RPG. Seek fortune as a Ghoul Hunter in an abandoned Soviet Exclusion Zone. Use your grit and ingenuity to survive deadly radiation, mysterious anomalies, and poisonous mutants. Go in guns-blazing, or stay in the shadows - your choice.