Single-player games like Help
Below are 24 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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Silly Billy
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
A horror survival game, where you explore an open-world town set in the Wild West, find and upgrade weapons and vehicles, and use them to beat an evil clown monster named Silly Billy.
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Scare: Fatal Picture
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Help.
Scare: Fatal Picture is a survival horror game in which you must face a dangerous ghost tribe to save your sister.
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The Northern Gate : Special agent
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
Save the world from the monsters invading! With your flying board, keep moving, get weapons, and kill the monsters! Don't forget to make strategies before every combat because it won't be an easy fight!
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Don't Leave
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
Welcome to a mysterious adventure where justice and the supernatural intertwine! Judge Harlan, in his old country cottage, faces a mysterious presence after his mother's sudden departure. Explore justice's limits in this extraordinary tale!
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Atrium Mortis
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
Atrium Mortis is a first-person psychological horror set in a vacant early 20th-century mansion. Plunge into Arthur's nightmare: explore the family estate, solve puzzles, hide from what lurks in the dark, and most importantly... always stay in the light. Will you uncover the truth?
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The Unrested
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
The Unrested is a story-driven first-person horror game. A spirit from your past traps you in an abandoned boarding school. A shadow watching your every step will test you with puzzles while forcing you to confront your fears.
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Project Vic
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
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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Curse:The First Knot
Single-player alternative to Help — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Help.
Some moments wish they never happened. After the accident you caused, you hide in a remote Anatolian village where secrets linger in the shadows of mosques. In this psychological horror by two developers, can you face your conscience? No escape. Only confrontation.
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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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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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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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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