Single-player games like Maja Island
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Maja Island, 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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Open Waters
Single-player alternative to Maja Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Maja Island.
Open Waters is a first-person ocean survival horror game. Stranded in a small boat, you must navigate treacherous waters, evade creatures of the deep, and find your way back to safety before the ocean drags you into its depths.
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Deer Head
Single-player alternative to Maja Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
Survive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to stay alive and fight the vengeful deer monster that lives in the forest. Use your camera to flash the monster and escape. Explore the forest and find out what happened.
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Out of the Fog
Single-player alternative to Maja Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
What begins as a myth-busting adventure quickly turns into a terrifying fight for survival when the mysterious faceless creature reveals himself to be real. Explore, survive and uncover the truth in this 1-2 player co-op horror experience.
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CALL OF CUTIE
Single-player alternative to Maja Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
CALL OF CUTIE is a single-player horror adventure set inside a vast, terrifying laboratory. Explore dark corridors, solve puzzles, fight frightening enemies, and rescue the victims trapped inside. Choose your own path with Bubbles and find a way to escape.
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THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion
Single-player alternative to Maja Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion is a survival horror game. Contains Fear, Stealth, Exploration/Puzzle solving, Item management. Moreover "Multiple First-Person Views" provides a new level of fear, immersion, strategy. Steal the vision of "something" lurking in the abandoned house and try to survive.
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The Red Selene
Single-player alternative to Maja Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
Sci-fi Horror now comes to Metroidvania, Creating The Horrovania, Begin your most disturbing adventure to the colony of EC-21 JANUS, KILL, LOOT, AND SURVIVE, and Immerse yourself in the huge open-world hand-drawn environments with massive details.
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Y. Village - The Visitors
Single-player alternative to Maja Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
Batu, tormented by nightmares, is lured to a nameless village via cryptic letters. Investigating the village's secrets with just one friend, he wakes one night to discover his ally gone. He must now locate his friend and elude the village's dark mysteries.
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Massacre At The Mirage
Single-player alternative to Maja Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
For less than the price of a movie ticket, experience your very own horror-fueled slasher flick in Massacre at the Mirage. Step into The Mirage cinema and face a chilling nightmare, where staff and patrons must survive a masked killer's rampage.
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Bobos FunZone
Single-player alternative to Maja Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
Step into the haunting realm of Bobo's Funzone, in this horror/puzzle adventure. Your mission: find your daughter, who was attending a birthday party here. Navigate the eerie corridors, unearth what happend, and be careful and cautious as Bobo is about.