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
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.
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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?
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.