Single-player games like Loan Shark
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Loan Shark, 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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THRESHOLD
Single-player alternative to Loan Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loan Shark.
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Loan Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loan Shark.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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Birds Watching
Single-player alternative to Loan Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loan Shark.
Singleplayer psychological horror game about bird watching. Explore the mountains, find and observe all the birds. Seek their help. Be honest. Be ruthless. They are watching.
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Loan Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loan Shark.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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GONE Fishing
Single-player alternative to Loan Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loan Shark.
GONE Fishing is a 1-8 player survival horror game where you and your friends must work together to stay alive, by fishing. The only way to survive is to keep feeding the lake’s insatiable hunger before it feeds on you. Can you satisfy the hunger... or will you become the next offering?
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UMIGARI | ウミガリ
Single-player alternative to Loan Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loan Shark.
UMIGARI is a first-person harpoon fishing game set in the foggy waters off the coast of Japan. Hunt fish with your harpoon, sell your catch, buy fuel, and upgrade your gear. Alone at sea, the more you explore, the stranger the fish become.
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Manny's
Single-player alternative to Loan Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loan Shark.
A starving castaway on a deserted island discovers that a fast food restaurant appears once the sun goes down. As if beckoning him inside in his most desperate hour of need, this stranded soul will have to work for his meal...and for his life!
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Loan Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loan Shark.
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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The Old Flesh of Nuraga
Single-player alternative to Loan Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Loan Shark.
First person psychological horror game about treasure hunting with Grandpa. Search among the sands of Nuraga to unearth what's driving him mad.