Single-player games like Sickness
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Sickness, 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
- 1
CORPSE FACTORY
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sickness.
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
- 2
Crimson Gray
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sickness.
John is a young man suffering from severe depression. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl... a very special girl.
- 3
outside the door
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sickness.
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
- 4
Visage
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sickness.
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.
- 5
Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sickness.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
- 6
Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sickness.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
- 7
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sickness.
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
- 8
Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sickness.
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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Sable's Grimoire
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Sable's Grimoire is a visual novel featuring monster girls in a magic academy setting. Play as Sable, an aspiring magic researcher, as he get sucked into the daily lives and troubles of his demi-human classmates.
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Tomboys Need Love Too!
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Tomboys Need Love Too is a visual novel about two childhood friends who are starting to see one another as members of the opposite sex.
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Wander No More
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Wander No More is a Kinetic Novel (visual novel without choices) which centers around the life of renowned samurai Kouichirou Nabatame, and Chiyo, a young village girl. Wander No More tells the story of how these two met, became a family, and attempted to restore their lives to what they once were.
- 12
Humanity Must Perish
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Humanity Must Perish is a short, comedic visual novel in which the fate of humanity is placed in the hands of a witty, pessimistic android.
- 13
My Heart Grows Fonder
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Visual novel about a couple who are reunited after a three year separation. Have the two moved on during their time apart? Or will old passions be rekindled?
- 14
Sable's Grimoire: A Dragon's Treasure
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Sleeping with a possessive half-dragon becomes the least of Sable's worries as he tries to stay one step ahead of his domineering mother-in-law.
- 15
Sable's Grimoire: Man And Elf
Single-player alternative to Sickness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Elves' secrets run as deep as their grudges, and Sable is caught right in the middle of an old, escalating feud between a family of powerful elves.