Single-player games like Yandere Virus
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Yandere Virus, 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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Space Snatcher
Single-player alternative to Yandere Virus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yandere Virus.
Six players. One infested ship. Ten alien monsters. Board increasingly dangerous deep space research vessels to scan alien species while repairing the ship and running from monsters. But the biggest threat might just be your friends.
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ROMUL
Single-player alternative to Yandere Virus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yandere Virus.
ROMUL is a co-op looting horror game. Together with a voice-controlled robot with early-stage AI, explore abandoned space stations with unstable gravity and use it to your advantage. Survive among monsters and extract valuable cargo.
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Small Beans
Single-player alternative to Yandere Virus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Yandere Virus.
A co-op horror-lite game where you dodge scary bears to steal back your clan's coins from a greedy King.
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Marrowood
Single-player alternative to Yandere Virus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yandere Virus.
Haunted by the suppressed memories of your childhood, you receive a letter from the town you grew up in. They need you to rebuild your family's farm. It's time to remember, welcome home.
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The Outlast Trials
Single-player alternative to Yandere Virus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yandere Virus.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to Yandere Virus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Yandere Virus.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Deathground
Single-player alternative to Yandere Virus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yandere Virus.
A 1-4 player co-op horror game that throws you into a desperate fight for survival against deadly dinosaurs. Run, hide and work together to complete missions and uncover the secrets buried within the abandoned AEON research facility. Can you and your friends make it out alive?
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CRYO
Single-player alternative to Yandere Virus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yandere Virus.
CRYO is a multiplayer co-op survival horror for 1-4 players. You have been deployed by your company to various locations around the Antarctic due to communication issues. What awaits you in these dark, remote regions is far more sinister than a technical fault...