Single-player games like Escape from Umbra
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Escape from Umbra, 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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Visage
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape from Umbra.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape from Umbra.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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Sorry We're Closed
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape from Umbra.
Sorry We're Closed is an eccentric story-driven survival horror game about demons, angels and what happens when both sides collide. A mix of classic fixed-camera exploration and arcade-style shooting where Michelle must use her Third Eye to see between worlds, uncover secrets and solve puzzles.
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Tormented Souls 2
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Escape from Umbra.
Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.
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Dead of Darkness
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape from Umbra.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
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Lamentum
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape from Umbra.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape from Umbra.
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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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape from Umbra.
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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Oxide Room 104
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape from Umbra.
A bone-chilling body-horror game with escape room gameplay. Bad decisions have brought Matthew to this terrifying motel. Now it’s up to you to decide how to escape - will you make it out alive?
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Timothy vs the Aliens
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape from Umbra.
An open-world game that combines platforms, puzzles and a lot of action in a large city that can be freely explored and is full of characters, stories and adventures.
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Gigantosaurus The Game
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Escape from Umbra.
The most exciting episode of Gigantosaurus yet is one you get to play in. But will you be the most roarsome explorer or the fastest racer? Play together with friends and family to help Rocky, Tiny, Mazu and Bill save the day – before dino-dashing to the next zone. Dinosaurs have never had such giant fun!
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Naught
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape from Umbra.
Test your skills, take control of the environment, and guide Naught through a dark underground world full of mystery. A platform videogame with a unique control that will immerse you in deep labyrinths in search of the light.
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Flying Soldiers
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape from Umbra.
Get ready to command an odd squad of fun birds and devise a plan to bring them safe and sound to the end of the battlefield. An outlandish puzzle game that will challenge your mind to make these greenhorn recruits into brave soldiers.
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Oxide Room 208
Single-player alternative to Escape from Umbra — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Escape from Umbra.
Eight people trapped in an old laboratory will try to survive their last moments in this action-packed, terrifying body horror game. Oxide Room 208 challenges you to face your fears in a dark and twisted environment where the boundary between flesh and insanity blur.