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Single-player games like VENERA 31

Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to VENERA 31, 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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    Omega Warp — Steam game cover

    Omega Warp

    Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Omega Warp is a sci-fi themed action-adventure, which takes place aboard an interstellar freighter. Explore, upgrade your skills and equipment, and uncover the mysteries surrounding the freighter's loss of communication with the base of operations on Earth.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gray — Steam game cover

    Gray

    Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    "Gray" is a first person, survival horror set around a Lunar prison colony, with a focus on story telling. Your oxygen is depleting as your mind is breaking. Can you smell the burning?

    2022Indie0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Area 19 — Steam game cover

    Area 19

    Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A First Person Sci Fi Horror Game. Set within a confidential Underground Facility, Navigate through this Abandoned Complex, Discover Government Experiments, Alien Beings, and the haunting aftermath of the Roswell Crash.

    2024IndieAdventure7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Planet Gallery — Steam game cover

    Planet Gallery

    Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with VENERA 31.

    Discover strange planets using an experimental space telescope. Take photos and defend your ship from dangerous debris!

    IndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mayak — Steam game cover

    Mayak

    Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A signal from a star // 3571 → 3559 → 3557 → … → 0 // 336 years remain // You and her, staring up at the sky. A hand-drawn sci-fi visual novel about first contact.

    2027IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Echo Paradox — Steam game cover

    The Echo Paradox

    Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The Echo Paradox is a first-person psychological horror game. Humanity stands on the brink of an unsettling revelation – alternate dimensions are real, but eerily without signs of life.

    2025Adventure8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tacoma — Steam game cover

    Tacoma

    Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    IFO — Steam game cover

    IFO

    Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with VENERA 31.

    A spaceship simulator for aliens, an ever-changing rule discovery puzzle for humans.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Commutator — Steam game cover

    Commutator

    Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A HUD-only psychological horror. You are an operator on a night shift that never ends, watching a frozen Arctic station through a dead man's terminal. No body, no camera, no music — only the interface, and the thing learning to use it back. Fully playable text-only.

    2026IndieAdventure11.69 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    OKTOFYBER — Steam game cover

    OKTOFYBER

    Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with VENERA 31.

    You are the hive operator: one human routing 13 branches of robot forces through real kill chains — satellite spots, artillery suppresses, fiber-optic FPV finishes. Every screen shows only what its sensor can prove. Eight channels, thirteen branches. What you can't handle, you'll delegate. Forever.

    2026StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →