Single-player games like Playback
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Playback, 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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Playback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Playback.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Playback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Playback.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Playback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Playback.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Playback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Playback.
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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Playback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Playback.
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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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to Playback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Playback.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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Trenches - World War 1 Horror Survival Game
Single-player alternative to Playback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Playback.
Trenches is a First-Person World War l Survival Horror Game where you have to escape the claustrophobic environment and experience the war from the eyes of a soldier caught behind enemy lines in this surreal nightmare as you fight for your life and sanity to get back home to your family.
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The Persistence
Single-player alternative to Playback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Playback.
Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.