Single-player games like The Music Machine
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Music Machine, 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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The Moon Sliver
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Music Machine.
You are on a bleak, cold, windy island. And you seem to be alone... but fires and candles still burn. As you explore, a story of guilt, loneliness, and faith begins to take shape. And it becomes obvious that something is hunting you...
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A Wolf in Autumn
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Music Machine.
A one-armed young girl finds herself locked in a shed in the middle of an idyllic autumn forest, with threats both physical and immaterial drawing closer.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Music Machine.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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The Path
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Music Machine.
There is one rule in the game. And it needs to be broken. There is one goal. And when you attain it, you die.
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Layers of Fear (2016)
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Music Machine.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
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Homesick
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Music Machine.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Music Machine.
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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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Music Machine.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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DUSK
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Music Machine.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
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Iron Lung
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Music Machine.
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
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Gloomwood
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Music Machine.
Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.
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Chop Goblins
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Music Machine.
A fast-paced micro FPS in which The Chop Goblins are loose, chopping their way through time itself in their ravenous quest for cheese. And THE CHOP WILL NOT STOP.
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Squirrel Stapler
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hunt squirrels, staple them to a corpse, and meet god.
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Butcher's Creek
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A first person melee horror game where you use rusty tools to brutalize a gang of serial torturers in the remote Appalachian Forest.
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The Pony Factory
Single-player alternative to The Music Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Winston thought he could use heavy machinery and power from the depths of hell to transform sinful men into magic ponies. Winston was wrong.