Single-player games like The Pale Deep
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Pale Deep, 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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Prey
Single-player alternative to The Pale Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to The Pale Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
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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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to The Pale Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
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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Aliens: Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to The Pale Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
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Halo: Campaign Evolved
Single-player alternative to The Pale Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
Halo: Campaign Evolved is a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign, rebuilt from the ground up.
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Unsafe Express
Single-player alternative to The Pale Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Pale Deep.
Unsafe Express is a cooperative first-person survival horror game for 1-4 players. Navigate through space stations, collect materials and outlast your enemies! Choose your objective based on complexity levels, then cast your vote. Gather items, exterminate hostiles, fulfill missions and repeat!
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Dead Space™ 2
Single-player alternative to The Pale Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
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Dead Space (2008)
Single-player alternative to The Pale Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
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BACKSPACE
Single-player alternative to The Pale Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Pale Deep.
BACKSPACE is an adventure/puzzle game where you start your new job as an intern for the space vessel manufacturing company, MVEM! While getting settled in at your new job and meeting the office's odd cast of characters, you may get a sense that something strange is going on...
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Jovian Drive
Single-player alternative to The Pale Deep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Pale Deep.
Gaze upon the moon-filled skies of the Jovian system and drive absurdly long distances across the Galilean moons of Jupiter! The routes themselves are easy, but the distances are not!