Single-player games like Night Shift
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Night Shift, 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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Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Night Shift.
Welcome to Circus Baby's Pizza World, where family fun and interactivity go beyond anything you've seen at those *other* pizza places! Now hiring: Late night technician. Must enjoy cramped spaces and be comfortable around active machinery. Not responsible for death or dismemberment.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Night Shift.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Night Shift.
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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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Night Shift.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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Barotrauma
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Night Shift.
Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Night Shift.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Night Shift.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Night Shift.
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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The Bunker
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Night Shift.
Trapped in an abandoned bunker, you are alone—your friends locked out, something else locked in. This PSX, VHS-style found-footage psychological horror plunges you into a nightmare of analog terror. Will you unravel the truth, survive the bunker’s horrors, and discover the fate of your friends?
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The Survivor
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Night Shift.
Manage your failing ship, evade lurking horrors, and navigate the galaxies to find the Lunar Star Base. With limited oxygen, dwindling power, and unknown terrors closing in, every decision is life or death. Will you make it home—or be lost forever?
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Paranormal Investigation
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Night Shift.
A psychological horror where you dive in and investigate a signal emanating from within the abandoned facility. Be careful about what you see and what you don’t, as it can be your undoing. Ghost evidence, strange noises, and anomalies are all part of the gig.
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Dark Mine
Single-player alternative to Night Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Night Shift.
Trapped underground after a collapse, you are the sole survivor of a deadly attack. Armed only with a night vision camera, navigate the darkness, avoid the creature, and find a way out in this retro-style survival horror game.