Single-player games like The Consuming Shadow
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to The Consuming Shadow, 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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WORLD OF HORROR
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
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Eldritch
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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Lovecraft's Untold Stories
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelite with RPG elements. Explore randomly generated levels based in Lovecraft's stories, fight cultists and all kinds of monsters from the Mythos, improve your gear, solve puzzles, and find clues and knowledge to defeat the Great Old Ones.
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
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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Nubby's Number Factory
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
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White Knuckle
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
White Knuckle is a first-person roguelite speed-climbing game. Ascend through the guts of SUB-STRUCTURE 17 using precision movement mechanics. Sharp reflexes and resource management will bring you out from under ten thousand meters of concrete and decay.
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Buckshot Roulette
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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Starstruck Vagabond
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy. Fortunately, there's always someone who needs cargo delivered.
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Zero Punctuation: Hatfall - Hatters Gonna Hat Edition
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
HATFALL is a high-energy game of skill and hat-wearing born from Zero Punctuation, the hit online video series from The Escapist, created by the man behind ZP, Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw.