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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Bring to Light
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
Trapped in the city subway system due to a sudden disaster, you explore the depths of the tunnels to find your way out. The further you explore, the more you realize there is more to this disaster...and the lurking shadows are following your every move.
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Taiga
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
Taiga is an atmospheric first person horror game with elements of survival. Explore the maze like forest, Uncover dark secrets that lay beneath pine and spruce. Save your colleagues if you can, but most importantly. Escape with your life.
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Deer Man
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
Deer Man is a short Interactive Storytelling experience. You play as Jacob's memory, where you will have an incredible encounter with Deer Man & the dark side of his love for the wildlife. If you love animals, this is for you!
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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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I'm on Observation Duty 3
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
A thrilling psychological horror game. Your job is to look for anomalies in a haunted house. If you see anyhting suspicious (furniture moving, extra objects, intruders), take a photo and send a report. Includes both VR- (windows only) and non-VR (windows, mac, linux)-versions.
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Transference™
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
Imagine an escape room set in a deranged mind. Experience a first-person exploration game in a chilling new dimension. Shift between three perspectives of a family and unravel the mystery hiding in this mind-bending psychological thriller.
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Don't Knock Twice
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. One knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. Supports VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for the ultimate horror experience!
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Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.
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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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The Case of the Golden Idol
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
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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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Citizen Sleeper
Single-player alternative to Scanner Sombre — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scanner Sombre.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
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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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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….