Single-player games like ROUTINE
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to ROUTINE, 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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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ROUTINE.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ROUTINE.
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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Backrooms Multi-Verses
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ROUTINE.
Survival horror with realistic graphics based on Unreal Engine 5. Ten highly detailed levels: liminal world, puzzles and creatures. New levels and content regularly. Experience unbearable horror and find a way to escape from...
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with ROUTINE.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Platform 8
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ROUTINE.
You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.
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LOST ZION
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ROUTINE.
Lost Zion is an atmospheric cyberpunk horror game. Awakened by a faint signal as a service bot, explore the forsaken megacity of Lost Zion. Uncover the Emperor's horrific secrets. Obey your sole command: Activate the Gravity Core.
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Never Again
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ROUTINE.
Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ROUTINE.
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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Silver Bullet: Prometheus
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ROUTINE.
Infiltrate the military research lab consipiring with the devil and hunt down the demons! Kali, the legendary "Goddess of Death" in the South America Rovolution. She joined Neverlight, the counter-demon organization, after some kind of incident.
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with ROUTINE.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with ROUTINE.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Prometheus Wept
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with ROUTINE.
Prometheus Wept is a turn-based, party-based RPG set on a post digital apocalypse Earth. The game offers squad-level combat, branching dialogue with consequential choices, simultaneous battles between cyberspace and the physical world, along with deep character progression and crafting systems.
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SIGNALIS
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ROUTINE.
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to ROUTINE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with ROUTINE.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.