Single-player games like The Shattering
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Shattering, 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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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to The Shattering — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Mundaun
Single-player alternative to The Shattering — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
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Luto
Single-player alternative to The Shattering — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
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Martha Is Dead
Single-player alternative to The Shattering — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
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KARMA: The Dark World
Single-player alternative to The Shattering — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
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The Suicide of Rachel Foster
Single-player alternative to The Shattering — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.
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GET EVEN
Single-player alternative to The Shattering — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Shattering.
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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God's Basement
Single-player alternative to The Shattering — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
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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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to The Shattering — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to The Shattering — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Layers of Fear (2016)
Single-player alternative to The Shattering — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
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.