Single-player games like The Dweller
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Dweller, 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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CARRION
Single-player alternative to The Dweller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dweller.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
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MachiaVillain
Single-player alternative to The Dweller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Dweller.
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
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Escape Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Dweller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Dweller.
First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.
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Party Hard 2
Single-player alternative to The Dweller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Dweller.
It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!
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Lucius Demake
Single-player alternative to The Dweller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dweller.
Lucius game has been demade, and is now ready for mayhem. Enjoy all the gore now in fewer pixels and fewer colors. The original game has been fully demade to achieve the atmosphere of an 80's style gory adventure. Lucius is now killing all the pixels and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it.
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Slayaway Camp
Single-player alternative to The Dweller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Dweller.
A killer puzzle game where you control Skullface, a psycho slasher bent on slaughtering camp counselors at the title campground. Slide an adorable voxel murderer around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80s horror.
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Death Coming/死神来了
Single-player alternative to The Dweller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Dweller.
'Death Coming' is a non-linear puzzle game where you must harvest human souls ‘Final Destination’ style. However, pesky mortals are not your only problem, as the Agents of Light will do everything they can to stop you.
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The Escapists
Single-player alternative to The Dweller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Dweller.
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!