Single-player games like The Land of Pain
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Land of Pain, 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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The Alien Cube
Single-player alternative to The Land of Pain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
A cursed legacy awakens something ancient, revealing a terrifying reality never meant for human eyes. Follow your missing uncle’s trail, uncover forbidden secrets, and face a Lovecraftian cosmic horror in this first‑person adventure.
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Mountains of Madness
Single-player alternative to The Land of Pain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
A first person horror exploration game set in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Use your tools to navigate the frozen galleries untouched by millennia and unearth evidence of a dreadful truth while you search for a madman whose ill fate lies somewhere beneath these Mountains of Madness
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to The Land of Pain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
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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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to The Land of Pain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Transient: Extended Edition
Single-player alternative to The Land of Pain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
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Narcosis
Single-player alternative to The Land of Pain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to The Land of Pain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to The Land of Pain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Land of Pain.
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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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Single-player alternative to The Land of Pain — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.