Single-player games like Containment Manifest
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Containment Manifest, 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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Convoluted
Single-player alternative to Containment Manifest — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Solve the mechanisms of a mysterious machine to find the way to its core. Deduce the patterns needed to connect Glimmer to glyphs in a unique logic puzzle system inspired by mathematical convolution.
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The Pale Place
Single-player alternative to Containment Manifest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Containment Manifest.
A deductive investigation game with a faded pixel art aesthetic. Set in a dreamlike, mysterious environment, the player becomes a conductor, (re)organizing and (re)positioning objects, characters, and puzzles while recovering lost fragments of their memory.
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The 7th Shift
Single-player alternative to Containment Manifest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Containment Manifest.
Work the overnight shift alone at Founder's Choice Market. Inspect shipments, decide what’s accepted or denied, and stock the shelves. But be careful, your performance is being evaluated, and it determines your fate. Escape after seven shifts or be forced to join the staff that never clocks out
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The Price of Grief
Single-player alternative to Containment Manifest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Containment Manifest.
Dive into a decade of secrets, mysterious characters and their inexplicable deaths - in the shadow of the darkest time in human history. Investigate crimes, decode documents, collect clues and solve riddles - one word at a time. The deeper you read, the less any of it seems to be an accident.
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EXORCISMUS: Vade Retro Satana
Single-player alternative to Containment Manifest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Containment Manifest.
A psychological exorcism horror featuring the unique Presence System and a 3D Jumpscare effect that makes demons burst out of your screen. Every sound has a source. The demon sees you, hears you, senses your fear. Forget predictable jumpscares.
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SIT DOWN, PLEASE
Single-player alternative to Containment Manifest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Containment Manifest.
Step into a scientist's shoes in a story driven game which leads you to discover a mysterious and unknown world by torturing characters. In order to find out all the hidden secrets, try to keep the guinea pigs alive for as long as possible by using the scientist's machinery.
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Under Review
Single-player alternative to Containment Manifest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Containment Manifest.
Welcome to the heart of a 1980s bureaucracy. Review applicant files, cross-check records, and make heavy moral decisions. Amidst strange rumors of an unidentified illness, will you uncover the dark truth or become an accomplice to the system?
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Decide 4 God
Single-player alternative to Containment Manifest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Containment Manifest.
The final entry of the Abime Series. Six intruders and six captives share a high-tech prison where their moral dilemmas may lead them to a fate worse than death. Can they overcome the wiles of Empathy Systems? What dark secrets lurk behind that institution? When does knowledge become a curse?