Single-player games like The Killing Shift
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Killing 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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Unredeemable
Single-player alternative to The Killing Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
Search to escape the school halls and fight to be free from the guilt that haunts the past. Where monsters birthed are memories made manifest and your fate is yours alone. Experience a beautifully haunting narrative in this psychological survival horror as David Cook, a boy in search of his end.
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The Christmas Shift
Single-player alternative to The Killing Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
The Christmas Shift is a cozy horror game where you work the holiday shift at a local café. Prepare hot drinks, serve fresh pastries, and keep your customers happy.
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LastWatch
Single-player alternative to The Killing Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
A first-person psychological survival horror set in an abandoned subway station. Monitor cameras, manage your sanity, and survive the night shift while something moves through the tunnels.
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Signs Of Devourer
Single-player alternative to The Killing Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
Its another night shift in the store, except this time you are trapped with monster disguised as one of the items. Keep the floor clean, shelves full, serve the customers... and try to not get devoured until the dawn.
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Project Vic
Single-player alternative to The Killing Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
As a freelance journalist, you receive a tip-off from a policeman friend about a death. You immediately make your way to the scene to get a first-hand impression of the case. But shortly after you arrive, you realize that things are not quite right here...
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Arrogation: Unlight of Day
Single-player alternative to The Killing Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
Arrogation: Unlight of Day is a psychological horror game set in World War II. You will play as a lone reporter searching for his lost family in an abandoned village from 80s China. Beyond darkness, you will find nightmarish creatures and secrets from the long lost Imperial Japanese Army.
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Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward
Single-player alternative to The Killing Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
Explore an abandoned psychiatric ward in this first-person psychological horror. Find patient files, solve puzzles, uncover your connection to the ward, and survive the entities stalking its halls. You cannot fight back.
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Hatch
Single-player alternative to The Killing Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
"Hatch is a single-player, first-person horror game. You find a hatch in your room and strange things start to happen to you. You are the target of psycho killers. You have to find the truth behind the hatch and escape from the crazy world.
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Ephialtes
Single-player alternative to The Killing Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
THE NIGHTMARES NEVER END. Survive a series of antagonists that linger in the corners of your mind, each playing by their own rules.