Single-player games like Lonely shift
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Lonely shift, 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 Charnel House Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Lonely shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lonely shift.
Witness The Charnel House Trilogy, the chronicle of one fateful night aboard a train bound for Augur Peak. Three thrilling, horrifying adventure games in one, from the depths of the Sepulchre, starring Madeleine Roux, Peter Willington, Jonathan Grier, Jim Sterling, and Ben Chandler as Grub.
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A Simple Garbage Sorting Game
Single-player alternative to Lonely shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lonely shift.
We are recruiting a large number of testers from around the world to participate in an unprecedented secret experiment.. Join us and embark on this journey of exploration that is crucial to survival. In this unknown experiment, your choices will determine the fate of the Earth.
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Perception
Single-player alternative to Lonely shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lonely shift.
An award-winning narrative thriller about a blind woman’s journey to uncover the truth about the mansion from her nightmares, or else become one of its victims.
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The Caribou Trail
Single-player alternative to Lonely shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lonely shift.
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive. In the still trenches, three soldiers learn the harsh truth of war: reckless missions, digging trenches, collecting dog tags and ghostly whispers in the dark. Home before the leaves fall, they thought.
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National Park Girls: Love Our Parks Edition
Single-player alternative to Lonely shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Lonely shift.
The complete edition of National Park Girls! After five years of being a ranger in Yosemite National Park, Eve is just about ready to throw in the towel. However, things start to change when she meets three spritely girls who claim to be manifestations of the National Parks.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to Lonely shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lonely shift.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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Daylight
Single-player alternative to Lonely shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lonely shift.
You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.
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贝如塔医院 Beta Hospital
Single-player alternative to Lonely shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lonely shift.
《贝如塔医院》是一款以荒废医院为主题的恐怖游戏，你将以第一人称视角，前往贝如塔医院寻找自己失踪的妻子——伊纳，但在医院中却遇到一些不太寻常的事件...
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Down the shaft
Single-player alternative to Lonely shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lonely shift.
Down the Shaft is a first person horror game where you take on the duty to keep an Elder God forever contain within the cave. In order to do that, you must keep the machines that maim them active. But beware, their minions are on the loose and they won't let you do your job so easy.