Single-player games like VENERA 31
Below are 11 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like VENERA 31 page.
Ranked picks
- 1

Atheris
Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dr. Roth wakes from cryosleep with his memory gone. The crew of the Atheris is dead, and the ship's AI speaks to him like a mother, then orders him to dance. Only she knows who did this. So will you, in an hour. If you're good enough.
- 2

Station-14
Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with VENERA 31.
Pilot a fragile drone through the depths of space and investigate a derelict station in this short horror game.
- 3

Omega Warp
Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with VENERA 31.
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.
- 4

Smiglee's Statues: The Cursed Curation
Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with VENERA 31.
A short first-person narrative horror simulator about cataloging and restoring museum statues while uncovering unsettling inconsistencies.
- 5

The Echo Paradox
Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with VENERA 31.
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.
- 6

Tacoma
Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with VENERA 31.
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.
- 7

Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with VENERA 31.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
- 8

Dead Space™ 2
Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with VENERA 31.
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
- 9

Did you visit CommutatorApply
Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You will go blind in 291 days. Decide who gets a "Commutator" to survive in the new world. Four endings. Three are pure hell.
- 10

Commutator
Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with VENERA 31.
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.
- 11

OKTOFYBER
Single-player alternative to VENERA 31 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with VENERA 31.
A war simulator. Destroy the enemy with thirteen branches of troops. OKTAVA will assist you — the Offline Kill-chain for Tactical Attacks of Vehicles Autonomous.