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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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.
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Into The Haze
Single-player alternative to Trace of the Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
Into the Haze is a single-player survival game set at the beginning of the apocalypse. You wake up on the rooftop on the 40th floor of the abandoned tower. The whole city is cover with poisonous gas. Gather resources, craft, build, and fight zombies. Survive until help arrives.
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
Single-player alternative to Trace of the Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
In Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach, play as Gregory, a young boy who’s been trapped overnight inside of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex. With the help of Freddy himself, Gregory must uncover the secrets of the Pizzaplex, learn the truth, and survive until dawn.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Trace of the Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Trace of the Villa.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.