Single-player games like The Hunter
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Hunter, 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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Dead of Darkness
Single-player alternative to The Hunter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hunter.
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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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to The Hunter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hunter.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
- 3
Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to The Hunter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hunter.
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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The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
Single-player alternative to The Hunter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Hunter.
Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to The Hunter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hunter.
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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to The Hunter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hunter.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Mundaun
Single-player alternative to The Hunter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hunter.
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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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to The Hunter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hunter.
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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Ravenmoore Psychiatric Hospital
Single-player alternative to The Hunter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hunter.
Explore an oppressive and terrifying environment where you play as a young man who infiltrates the old and abandoned Ravenmoore Psychiatric Hospital in search of the harsh reality hidden behind this place. Every sound can be a sign of danger... Don't let them find you, and especially not HER......