Single-player games like Tainted Pools
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Tainted Pools, 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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Midnight Train
Single-player alternative to Tainted Pools — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tainted Pools.
You wake up alone on a mysterious subway train. Can you find the true story ? Solve puzzles and escape… before the thing in the shadows finds you.
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Uventa
Single-player alternative to Tainted Pools — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tainted Pools.
The tragic fate brings you, a simple night guard, to an abandoned school. Plunge into a horrifying story and get to the bottom of the secret that this spectre of the long-gone Soviet era has in store.
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to Tainted Pools — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tainted Pools.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Metro Exodus
Single-player alternative to Tainted Pools — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tainted Pools.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Tainted Pools — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tainted Pools.
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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DESOLATE
Single-player alternative to Tainted Pools — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tainted Pools.
DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Tainted Pools — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tainted Pools.
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.
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PARANOIA PLACE
Single-player alternative to Tainted Pools — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tainted Pools.
PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Together or alone, you will need to solve puzzles, find items and run from the bloodthirsty demonic killer.
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The Basement Ritual
Single-player alternative to Tainted Pools — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tainted Pools.
The Basement Ritual is a short indie horror game where you have been kidnapped and must escape a cult’s basement premises solving puzzles and hiding from a demonic creature.