Single-player games like Dark Mine
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Dark Mine, 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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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Dark Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Mine.
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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The Backrooms: Survival
Single-player alternative to Dark Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Mine.
Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Dark Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Mine.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to Dark Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Mine.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Dark Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Mine.
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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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to Dark Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Mine.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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Chernobylite Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Dark Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Mine.
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to Dark Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Mine.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
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The Bunker
Single-player alternative to Dark Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Mine.
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 Dark Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Mine.
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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Night Shift
Single-player alternative to Dark Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dark Mine.
Feeling hungry? Our pizza will make you never hungry again. Apply today for the prestigious Night Shift at our beloved 24/7 pizza parlor. Clean up, clock in, and definitely don’t look out the windows.
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Paranormal Investigation
Single-player alternative to Dark Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Mine.
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.