Single-player games like RETRIEVAL
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to RETRIEVAL, 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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Insanias
Single-player alternative to RETRIEVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RETRIEVAL.
Insanias is a psychological horror game where you will have to explore what happened to find a hidden truth. To do this, you will have to be able to control your sanity to avoid falling into the madness that lurks in every corner. Are you ready to face your fears and discover the truth?
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SILENT CONFESSION
Single-player alternative to RETRIEVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RETRIEVAL.
Silent Confession is a first-person psychological horror game. Living in a cramped urban village building, You develop a sick obsession with the woman in the opposite building. Voyeurism is your daily routine. But after giving in to your urges one day, something in your room no longer feels right.
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The Voss Clinic
Single-player alternative to RETRIEVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RETRIEVAL.
A psychiatric hospital. 1986. The staff are dead. The doors are open. You have no memory of how you got here or why your name is on a patient file. No monsters. No combat. Only the silence of empty corridors, and the slow realization of what was done to you.
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The Strange Lights
Single-player alternative to RETRIEVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RETRIEVAL.
You have arrived in a forest where people are rumored to disappear and strange things happen... Locals often see bright flashes and hear strange sounds...
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Box of Broken Nails
Single-player alternative to RETRIEVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RETRIEVAL.
First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
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Below, Rusted Gods
Single-player alternative to RETRIEVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RETRIEVAL.
You are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown. Keep both yourself and your squad alive by interpreting instrument readings, explore the facilities, and uncover something ancient and eager to be born.
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KARMA: The Dark World
Single-player alternative to RETRIEVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RETRIEVAL.
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
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One-Eyed Likho
Single-player alternative to RETRIEVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with RETRIEVAL.
One-Eyed Likho is a grim first-person horror adventure set in a world inspired by a dark, Slavic fairy tale. Explore an unsettling and twisted land set in 19th-century Russia in your endeavor to escape your own evil fate.