Single-player games like Shellshock
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Shellshock, 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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弃层凶谈
Single-player alternative to Shellshock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shellshock.
Curse Of The Abandoned Floor is a first-person Chinese horror game. It starts with a paranormal video about an urban legend: "Beware the non-existent elevator mezzanine. If you enter it, you will be trapped forever."
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Chorus of Carcosa
Single-player alternative to Shellshock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shellshock.
Chorus of Carcosa is a first-person psychological horror game about an anxious sculptor who is trapped in a dark and ever-changing building. Stay silent, survive its twisted labyrinths and escape the monsters. Just don’t lose your way in the shadows or within your own mind.
- 3
KURSK
Single-player alternative to Shellshock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shellshock.
KURSK is the first ever adventure and documentary video game inspired by real events. You assume the role of a spy who finds way on the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk. While trying to complete your mission, you become witness to the dramatic events which shook the world at that time.
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Clink
Single-player alternative to Shellshock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shellshock.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
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Platform 8
Single-player alternative to Shellshock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shellshock.
You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Shellshock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shellshock.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Don't Be Afraid
Single-player alternative to Shellshock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shellshock.
Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Shellshock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shellshock.
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.