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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Among Ashes
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
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Dead Format
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dead Format is a survival horror game set in iconic film eras. It's 1990s Scotland, and your brother has gone missing after becoming obsessed with a mysterious new VHS format. Follow his trail through the tapes and uncover why the government wants to ban "Video Ghastlies".
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Crow Country
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1990. It’s been two years since the mysterious disappearance of Edward Crow and the abrupt closure of his theme park, Crow Country. But your arrival has broken the silence, Mara Forest. If you want answers, you’ll have to venture deep into the darkness of Crow Country to find them…
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Tower of Mask
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Tower of Mask is a thrilling survival horror in the spirit of the 80's dungeon crawlers. The most claustrophobic dungeon in modern times is yours to venture through alone. Hero, face the ancient tower where eerie masked humans prowl.
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Eclipsium
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.
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Dementium: The Ward
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Fright Train
Single-player alternative to Caput Mortum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Fight through a train overtaken by monsters and survive Antarctica’s cold as paranormal special agent Doug Barker in this chilling single-player third-person survival horror roguelite.