Single-player games like Roots of Insanity
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Roots of Insanity, 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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Beyond Extinct
Single-player alternative to Roots of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Roots of Insanity.
Beyond Extinct is a First Person Shooter where you take on the role of a survivor in an underground facility. You have to fight your way through waves of monsters to reach the surface. Unlimited fighting combinations in randomly generated levels with 20+ weapons, 50+ items and more!
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Into Death and Beyond
Single-player alternative to Roots of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Roots of Insanity.
Into Death and Beyond is a gripping first-person survival horror game set on the hostile planet XB32-ENT. As bounty hunter Mark Helkins, scavenge for resources, solve puzzles, and confront terrifying mutants. Unravel dark secrets and capture a rogue alien before it hunts you down. Will you survive?
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The Unknown Fear
Single-player alternative to Roots of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Roots of Insanity.
The Unknown Fear is about a prisoner, sentenced to death, that had his memory deleted. His only chance of changing his life is by retrieving a file on the main computer of a secret settlement. Will you be able to get a new life or will the imprisoned creature in the settlement devour your body?
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Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Single-player alternative to Roots of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Roots of Insanity.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
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Welcome to Hanwell
Single-player alternative to Roots of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Roots of Insanity.
Open world horror set in a city in which your worst nightmares have become an everyday part of life. Explore a dense open world of terror, every building a unique location with it's own story to tell. Strung together by the remenants of Hanwell.
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Outlast 2
Single-player alternative to Roots of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Roots of Insanity.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to Roots of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Roots of Insanity.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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Remorse: The List
Single-player alternative to Roots of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Roots of Insanity.
Remorse: The List is a classic survival horror game where the player must figure out what is happening in the little hungarian town of Hidegpuszta, and your only clue is a list that doesn't make much sense. Exploring will be the key to unveiling its secrets and get out of there alive.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Roots of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Roots of Insanity.
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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A Way To Be Dead
Single-player alternative to Roots of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roots of Insanity.
A Way to be Dead is an asymmetrical multiplayer (up to 5 players) horror game. Players can take on the role of killer, the victims, or even the undeads. Escape | Kill | Eat...