Single-player games like Phantaruk
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Phantaruk, 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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The House
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phantaruk.
The House is a new first-person horror and psychological game for the computer. Escape the house where it all began, collect items, weapons and level up. Travel between worlds and time to reach your goal. Go discover the dark secrets of the House where it all began!
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MadMan
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phantaruk.
Trapped inside an abandoned mental asylum with a psychopathic killer lurking about, you are forced to explore the facility armed with only your wits to survive. With a blood hungry madman on your trail, every move could be your last. Will you escape to tell the tale or fall victim to the madness
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Haze Together
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phantaruk.
HAZE TOGETHER is a 1-4 player psychological survival horror game set in claustrophobic mines. Team up with friends, explore dangerous industrial facilities, and escape the darkness trying to consume you. Remember: the haze thickens every second, and you are not alone.
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Granny: Escape Together
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phantaruk.
This is a creepy co-op horror game. In which you find yourself locked in a crazy Granny's house. But Granny is not the only danger that awaits you in the house, someone else creepy lives in the basement. You have five days to get out of the house!
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Pneumata
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phantaruk.
Prepare to question what is reality, and what is insanity in one of the scariest psychological horrors in years. The tenants are going missing, screams echo and blood seeps through the walls of Clover Hill.
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Paranormal Cleanup
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phantaruk.
Clock in for the worst cleaning shift of your life: Unclog nasty toilets and scrub ectoplasm in this 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Get the job done and don't get caught by the entities hunting you!
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THREAT -SCREAM AND ESCAPE-
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phantaruk.
THREAT -SCREAM AND ESCAPE- is a unique horror game where you must scream into your microphone to stun approaching creatures and make your escape. Use the power of your voice to clear the path and guide the protagonist, who wakes up in a mysterious research facility, to freedom.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phantaruk.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phantaruk.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Phantaruk.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Phantaruk.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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System Shock® 2 (1999)
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Phantaruk.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
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System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Phantaruk.
System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phantaruk.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Phantaruk.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phantaruk.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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We. The Revolution
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, preside over complicated cases of ordinary citizens, dangerous criminals, and enemies of the revolution in revolutionary Paris. Make judgments, plot political intrigue, and try to not lose your own head!
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Mech Mechanic Simulator
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Become a Mech Mechanic to deconstruct, rebuild, paint and fix gigantic iron machines. You live in an age of enormous machines and you better get ready to get your hands dirty!
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Mech Mechanic Simulator: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Phantaruk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantaruk.
Become a Mech Mechanic to deconstruct, rebuild, paint and fix gigantic iron machines. You live in an age of enormous machines and you better get ready to get your hands dirty!