Single-player games like The Vending Machine
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Vending Machine, 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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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Vending Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
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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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to The Vending Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
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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Christmas Nightmare
Single-player alternative to The Vending Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Vending Machine.
Christmas Nightmare is an atmospheric horror game about New Year's Eve.
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[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
Single-player alternative to The Vending Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.
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Those Who Remain
Single-player alternative to The Vending Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Vending Machine.
As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.
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Don't Be Afraid
Single-player alternative to The Vending Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to The Vending Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
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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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to The Vending Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.