Single-player games like Help
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Help, 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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
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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GET EVEN
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.
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The Devourer: Hunted Souls
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
Play as a paranormal investigator in our hybrid between first person survival and psychological horror story game. Investigate a haunted forest with up to 5 players CO-OP, try to lift the curse, experience a tragic story and take decisions together. Will you survive or will you lose your soul?
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Dead of Darkness
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
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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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
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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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Help.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Deadly Broadcast
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
Deadly Broadcast is a co-op horror and survival game that can be played with 1-4 players. As a Famous Streamer, you have to stay alive, but at the same time you should stream the paranormal events in the cursed places to gather more donations and more viewers. Don’t die! Don’t cut the Broadcast!
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Help.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
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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Overcast - Walden and the Werewolf
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
A mysterious creature has destroyed a village located near Walden's cabin, killing every person residing on the premises. Now, Walden wants revenge. This is the story of an old hunter who has nothing to lose.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Help.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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INQUIR P.T.
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
A post-apocalyptic story-based action adventure game. Fully customizable weapons and a high mobility character. Zombie horde mode and full of action, blood, brutality.
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SAMOLIOTIK
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
SAMOLIOTIK is a stylish shoot-em-up with different enemies, bosses, colour palettes, power-ups, set in different eras. In this game you will fight Adolf Gutler,The Illuminati, and other creatures.
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Among Ass
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
Local party or single player game about teamwork and killing with forbidden items!
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Rogue Port - Blue Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
Help reunite your missing friends and save your family from wild animals, mutants, inanimate objects, aliens and the undead!
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Possessed
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Help.
Possessed is a fast-paced story driven survival first person shooter spread across 3 action-packed regions. It features witty characters, terrifying creatures and a strong focus on physics and world interaction.
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Drunken Fight Simulator
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
For real fun and drunken fighting experience, try Drunken Fighting Simulator.
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Dexodonex
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Help.
Hexagonal puzzle with the ability to edit levels
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Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice, the title says it all! You get thrown into a dark room, with no light to be found anywhere! Are you willing to end your life to light the way for the next generation to proceed further? Play it today and find out!
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Byte Family
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
Overcome obstacles and restore the cyber world ByteFamily, eliminating the system virus, unlocking new game modes and gaining new skills! HERE IS THE TERRIBLE WORLD ENEMIES BYTE FAMILY