Single-player games like The Survey
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to The Survey, 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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Cauldron Inn
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Survey.
Trying to save yourselfe from something unknown but clearly malevolent, you hide in a mysterious inn. However, your temporary refuge turns out to be a trap, and now you must find a way to escape.
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Dreamless
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Survey.
In a remote provincial town, teenagers mysteriously disappear every 25 years. You're a high school student about to turn 18... But what if you become the next victim?
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Clink
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Survey.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
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Fuck You Witch
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Survey.
Your best friend has confessed her love for you... but the problems don't stop there. You've started to hallucinate. All this interferes with sleeping and eating, and in general disrupts your ideal lifestyle. Yell obscenities at the witch, immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the Qazaq steppes
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Within Skerry
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Survey.
The Accumulation of Evil is an ancient book stating that if enough evil energy is concentrated in a single area, a dark force may be born.Humans can sometimes be very horrible creatures - but sometimes, it is taken a bit too far.
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Summer of '58
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Survey.
In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.
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EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…
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God's Basement
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Survey.
God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.
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Layers of Fear (2016)
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Survey.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
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Quantum Break
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Survey.
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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PT+
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Survey.
Use virtual reality to learn how to stretch and exercise your neck
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INQUIR P.T.
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Survey.
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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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.