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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.

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Ranked picks

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    Atheris — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026ActionIndie3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Station-14 — Steam game cover

    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. 

    2026IndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Omega Warp — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Smiglee's Statues: The Cursed Curation — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-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. 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.

    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. 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.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024IndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dead Space™ 2 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2011ActionAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Did you visit CommutatorApply — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026Indie3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Commutator — Steam game cover

    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.

    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.

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation13.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →