Single-player games like Arctic alive
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Arctic alive, 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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Apartament 1406: Horror
Single-player alternative to Arctic alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Arctic alive.
Apartment 1406 is an intense horror game, that challenges you to constantly survive in a hostile environment. Collect items to survive against limited ammo and creatures that lurk in the dark. Solve the puzzles and survive in this dark game.
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Distrust: Polar Survival
Single-player alternative to Arctic alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arctic alive.
DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.
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Near Death
Single-player alternative to Arctic alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Arctic alive.
Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Arctic alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Arctic alive.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to Arctic alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Arctic alive.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Arctic alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Arctic alive.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Arctic Anxiety
Single-player alternative to Arctic alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Arctic alive.
Survival simulator in extreme conditions. The game takes place in the Arctic ocean. The pilot of a cargo plane makes a hard landing on the water. To survive, the player will have to search for a cargo washed up on the shore.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Arctic alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Arctic alive.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Archipelago
Single-player alternative to Arctic alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Arctic alive.
Archipelago - is a fun game about pirate adventures.
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Silicone-2
Single-player alternative to Arctic alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Arctic alive.
Silicone-2 - a shooter with a first-person. In the story the player will have to quell the uprising of robots.
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Caliper
Single-player alternative to Arctic alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Arctic alive.
All or something is preventing and helping, freezing and melting, braking and slipping, glowing and fading. The devices are subordinated with the common laws of a puzzle. That, that is melted that will not be frozen and will not swim. But there is something unfired that drowning and freezing. The Ice bridges are not for the fire coals.
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Caliper 2
Single-player alternative to Arctic alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Arctic alive.
Caliper 2 is an absolute, turn-based puzzle. By manipulating objects with different properties, you need to put some object on the button and enter the portal.