Single-player games like 771: Smile and work
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to 771: Smile and work, 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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SOMA
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Mundaun
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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Luto
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
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Psalm 5:9-13
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
"Psalm 5:9-13" is a first-person psychological horror game with VHS effect. Be careful and attentive, there is something hiding in these rooms, something is watching from the darkness.
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Gray Dawn
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Welcome to Kowloon
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
This is an indie horror from the first person, in which you find yourself in an area called Kowloon in search of cheap housing. The inhabitants of this place only at first glance seem to be ordinary people, but if we dig deeper, we will see their real faces.
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Don't Play This
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it? A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.
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Lair of Torment
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
This is an indie horror game with first-person puzzles. Terror and fear have enveloped the city. The maniac has returned. You sneak into his lair to try and stop him before he goes too far...
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Gift Collector [ギフトコレクター]
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
Gift Collector [ギフトコレクター] - this is a New Year's horror game from the first person, in the Japanese style and genre of walking simulator. Collect gifts and make the kids happy on New Year's Eve. But don't forget that Midnight is a time of miracles!
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Night Grove
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
This is a first-person indie horror game. A young deliveryman took an unusual order that led him to Night Grove. This place has a dubious reputation among the townspeople, because for many years it has been sent to live with people that society has long since abandoned.
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Butcher of the North
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
You never received any New Year's gifts. This year, you decided to take what is yours. After tracking Santa down by his IP address, you head to his lair to take what is rightfully yours.
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Frozen Shelter
Single-player alternative to 771: Smile and work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 771: Smile and work.
Frozen Shelter is an indie first-person walking simulator game made in realistic 3D graphics. As a location, the player will be presented with a bunker built during the Cold War of the USSR. The fascinating atmosphere of loneliness will put pressure on the player throughout the game.