Single-player games like Silent Watcher
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Silent Watcher, 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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No Haste
Single-player alternative to Silent Watcher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Silent Watcher.
No Haste is a survival horror game. Sneak into a shopping mall to steal, be discreet and smart and don't get caught by the Rist creature!
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Traces
Single-player alternative to Silent Watcher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Silent Watcher.
A child is missing in the woods. You and three others enter the forest to find them. Track the clues. Stay together. Don’t lose the light. Because you’re not the only ones searching.
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Effigy : The Descent
Single-player alternative to Silent Watcher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Silent Watcher.
Effigy : The Descent is a first-person survival-horror game in which you will face statues, with your lantern as your only tool to stop them. Gather all artefacts from the cave and freedom will be yours !
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It Happened At Night - A New Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Silent Watcher — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
While working at a remote site deep in the woods, Chloe becomes entangled in a disturbing mystery that leads her into something far more terrifying than she could have imagined.
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Cave Of Horrors
Single-player alternative to Silent Watcher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Silent Watcher.
Explore and discover the secrets of a non-linear cave. Document everything you find in your logbook. You cannot return unless you find every single information about every monster, plant, ore and point of interest.
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The Untold Legends: Baba Yaga
Single-player alternative to Silent Watcher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Silent Watcher.
The first in a series of exploration/horror games giving a new twist on old legends. Follow the clues and stay on the trail or navigate the open world and choose your own path, but beware, the actions you take may alter your ending. Unveil the story while evading the clutches of Baba Yaga.
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Prototech
Single-player alternative to Silent Watcher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Silent Watcher.
Be careful, in the darkness there are surveillance robots ready to kill you at any time. Will you discover the strangeness and secrets behind Prototech's presence at the school.
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Chilling Gooey Internet Cafe
Single-player alternative to Silent Watcher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Silent Watcher.
A reclusive man falls asleep and wakes up in a nightmarish internet café haunted by twisted horrors — mutated moe characters, creatures crawling with hands. Explore, hide, and flee your way to freedom in this first-person horror where reality and nightmare blur. Playtime: ~3 hours.