Single-player games like The Consuming Shadow
Below are 14 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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Unchosen: Forsaken
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
VR horror rouge-like game where the player will need escape a purgatorial environment by completing a set of objectives and finding useful tools and equipment while avoiding and out-smarting hostile monsters and traps.
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Feed the Deep
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
A lovecraftian roguelike. Dive into procedurally generated undersea caves. Collect gold, upgrade your equipment, and Feed the Deep.
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Claustrophobia
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Claustrophobia offers a scary and dark horror experience filled with blood boiling moments, first you will have to silently move your way through the darkness, until you can pick up arms and discover the truth. Can you figure out what is hiding in this grueling subterranean facility?
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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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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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Shadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Lost forever in the pitch black! But that's what makes it fun! The vast corridors covered in darkness change with each play. All you can do is run or hide from the frightening Apparitions. Use unique items and Karuta cards with special powers in your desperate search for an escape from the darkness!
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Floor44
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Floor44 is a hardcore luckiness detector kinda game with randomly generated maps, the goal is to make it to the top floor. You can rely on your skills to reach floor30, but you'll need more than that to make it to Floor44.
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The Backrooms: Survival
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.
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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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Mythos
Single-player alternative to The Consuming Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Mythos is a Hack & Slash RPG game that offers exciting experience that makes you want to play again and again with unique content, such as a differentiated job and Dungeon system in terrain that varies with entry. We invite you to take on a dynamic adventure on the planet ‘Uld’
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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.