Single-player games like Pipeline Crawl
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Pipeline Crawl, 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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Corcovado's Night Guard
Single-player alternative to Pipeline Crawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.
You are Vicente, a night guard that works in Corcovado, taking care of this brazilian tourist spot, christ the redeemer. A first person, singleplayer, walk-simulator experience. Investigate what is happening and try to escape this nightmare.
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Death Counter
Single-player alternative to Pipeline Crawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.
You're a cameraman, filming dead bodies and unseen horrors from the past, and instantly changing what the Death Counter watches in the future.
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Down the shaft
Single-player alternative to Pipeline Crawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.
Down the Shaft is a first person horror game where you take on the duty to keep an Elder God forever contain within the cave. In order to do that, you must keep the machines that maim them active. But beware, their minions are on the loose and they won't let you do your job so easy.
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CHWÆST: A Creeping Parasite Horror
Single-player alternative to Pipeline Crawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.
A late-90s retro 3D horror where you feed the Biomass Core to escape. No keys. No doors.
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Scary Cave Diving
Single-player alternative to Pipeline Crawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.
Can you hold your breath when panic sets in? Experience the terror of deep-sea cave diving. Scavenge resources and fight to survive as you navigate procedurally generated underwater caves stalked by an apex predator!
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Urbex Night Security
Single-player alternative to Pipeline Crawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pipeline Crawl.
Atmospheric slow-burn indie horror game. Walking simulator interspersed with various events, sometimes simple puzzles and a bit of running away.Student starts working as a security guard in the old abandoned factory that hides a dark secret.
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METROLOGY
Single-player alternative to Pipeline Crawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.
METROLOGY is a First Person Horror set in the dark depths of the Underground Metro Transit System. Traverse endless tunnels while the horrors of the Underground haunt you. Uncover secrets, solve environmental puzzles and RUN. You do not want to be here. THEY do not want you here. Escape, if you can…
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Those Who Crawl VR
Single-player alternative to Pipeline Crawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.
Crawl through tight cave tunnels and avoid monsters in this claustrophobic VR spelunking game. Escape inhuman monsters and deadly environments as the cave walls turn to flesh.
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Voltswarm
Single-player alternative to Pipeline Crawl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.
A lone robot faces an ever-growing machine swarm in this 3D bullet heaven. Weapons fire automatically. Choose your weapons, upgrades, cores, and mods wisely, then survive escalating waves of industrial chaos.