Single-player games like Scanner Sombre
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to Scanner Sombre, 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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Narcosis
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
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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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
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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Homesick
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
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The Voidness - Lidar Horror Survival Game
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
The Voidness is a SCI-FI psychological horror game where it takes place inside the void where it's filled with just gloom - the only way to see is by scanning the environment with your range finder device, however you are not alone. Don't breathe ... as they are listening.. and watching.
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Iron Lung
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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Baba Is You
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scanner Sombre.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
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Northern Journey
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
A norwegian happysad game set in a northern land! Adventure through a beautiful and very varied wilderness. Dive, fly, use ziplines and find different weapons to aid your journey to reach the cold mountains and below. Encounter over 50 unique bosses and enemy types!
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DEATH STRANDING
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an all-new, genre-defying experience. Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the disconnected remnants of our future in his hands, he embarks on a journey to reconnect the shattered world one step at a time.
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Mundaun
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
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Who's Lila?
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
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Dum-Dum
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
Travel back to 1985 to discover more about the self-proclaimed “greatest operating system of all time." Navigate the weird quirks of Hogo OS 1985 Edition, solve puzzles, play mini-games, and unravel the story behind why this one-time cutting edge computer system was mysteriously lost to time.
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Gloomwood
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scanner Sombre.
Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scanner Sombre.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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DEFCON
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scanner Sombre.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
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Uplink
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scanner Sombre.
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
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The Last Starship
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scanner Sombre.
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
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Darwinia
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scanner Sombre.
Darwinia blends real-time strategy, action, and puzzles with a unique gesture-based control system. Save the Darwinians, battle viruses, and restore order in a retro-inspired digital world. Winner of multiple prestigious awards, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at IGF 2006.
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Multiwinia
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scanner Sombre.
Multiwinia is a fast-paced, retro-inspired RTS that blends arcade action with strategic depth. Command armies of Multiwinians in multiplayer battles across vibrant, nostalgic environments. With simple controls and dynamic gameplay, it offers endless fun and challenge for players of all skill levels.
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DEFCON VR
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scanner Sombre.
DEFCON VR allows you to spectate DEFCON games in the comfort of your own virtual War Room. Join others and marvel at total global annihilation as nuclear missiles arc over the globe on their path to destruction. Watch Armageddon unfold as everybody dies….