Single-player games like Caput Mortum
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Caput Mortum, 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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Necrofane
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
A dark power is rising. Defeat the necromancer and his generals before they conquer the kingdom. In this old school dark fantasy RPG, explore cursed dungeons, battle monstrous foes, master forbidden magic, and gather powerful loot in a world teetering on the edge of ruin.
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Backrooms: Impending Doom
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
The research team is gone. You're next. A first-person psychological horror in the Backrooms - explore ruined levels, keep your Synchronization steady, and uncover what destroyed your research team. Free demo: the Prologue.
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Yn Moddey Dhoo
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
A 1-bit PSX-style first-person horror game based on Manx folklore. Dusk falls on Peel Castle, Isle of Man. The Moddey Dhoo, a massive black dog, stalks the castle corridors. Run. Hide. Escape. Don't look into its eyes; they might be the last thing you see.
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Skeletons
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Regurgitated into a cursed, dying world – endure peril and contend against fleeting time to fulfil your ordered purpose, in this gruelling first-person exploration game.
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Nature of Dread
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
A gritty first-person action-horror where you awaken trapped in the cursed settlement of Hellhole—a forsaken place swallowed by the northern wilderness. Fight your way out of this nightmare’s depths and uncover what has been buried under top-secret clearance for centuries.
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County Hospital 2
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Paranormal Horror! Using just a handycam go inside a very dark abandoned hospital, the nightvision will help you to see, explore the place and face all kinds of brutal entities in a creepy inmersive enviroment *Mission: Find a fuse to return the power and then destroy the place by setting it on fire
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Baptisterio
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
“With an analog camera, a gift from my father, a photo of the missing tourists and the illusion of my first big news I prepare to enter with the brothers to the enigmatic baptistery.”
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Waking Dreams
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
A survival horror game that blends exploration, puzzles, resource management and combat.
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Thief
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
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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Arx Fatalis
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
This critically acclaimed first-person RPG from Arkane Studios takes the player on an amazing journey into the fantasy world of Arx. Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war.
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Myst
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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AMNESIA
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
After a series of events now shrouded in mystery, our protagonist - a young man - fell into a coma, losing all recollection of the person he used to be. He is given a clean slate. All that’s left to do now is to carefully and thoroughly investigate every facet of your former self.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Born of Bread
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Get ready to go on a wacky and joyful turn-based RPG adventure! Play as Loaf, a freshly baked flour golem, and explore the different regions of a wonderful world ripe with mysteries with the help of a colorful cast of characters.
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Helltown
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Deliver packages to the weirdly happy folk of Little Vale and discover the terrifying secrets they hide. Are you brave enough to face the many monsters and sinister locations of this first-person horror adventure game? There's only one way to find out...