Single-player games like The Survey
Below are 10 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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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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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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The Guest
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Survey.
'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.
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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Survey.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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Pieces of me
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Survey.
“Pieces of Me” is not a classic horror game with jump scares, but a psychological thriller-drama in the walking simulator genre. It is a spin-off of “September 7th”
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Left Alone
Single-player alternative to The Survey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Survey.
Left Alone plunges you into a first-person psychological horror journey, where darkness and memories intertwine. As secrets emerge from shadows, use your wits to solve puzzles and explore haunting, forgotten locations. Every step echoes with the past; can you face the truths that await?
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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.