Single-player games like The Red Stare
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Red Stare, 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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Covert Syndrome
Single-player alternative to The Red Stare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Red Stare.
Covert Syndrome is a free to play Coop corridor shooter with a focus on unscripted AI and fast tough combat. Created as a prototyping project we wanted to release it to the community so people can experience Co-op VR for free.
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Belko VR: An Escape Room Experiment
Single-player alternative to The Red Stare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Red Stare.
Exploring the themes in THE BELKO EXPERIMENT, the Belko VR – Escape Room Experiment provokes the question: “What does it take to survive at work?” Players are prompted to solve a series of challenging puzzles in order to escape from their office before a microchip in their head explodes.
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The Lab
Single-player alternative to The Red Stare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Free To Play with The Red Stare.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Taphouse VR
Single-player alternative to The Red Stare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Red Stare.
In Taphouse VR, you are the bartender! Run your own taphouse, give drunk dwarves their fill of delicious ale or drench the bunch by mixing delicious cocktails! Everything around the counter is yours to mess with - including your paying customers.
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Deadly Hunter VR
Single-player alternative to The Red Stare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Red Stare.
Deadly Hunter is an immersive first-person defense game designed exclusively for VR. You play as a renowned Orc hunter whose goal is to learn the enemy’s weaknesses and use the best-suited traps to blow their heads off!
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Waltz of the Wizard (Legacy demo)
Single-player alternative to The Red Stare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Red Stare.
Store page for the legacy demo of Waltz of the Wizard created as a prototype to showcase the power of room-scale VR. Please find the full product in the description below.
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NVIDIA® VR Funhouse
Single-player alternative to The Red Stare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Free To Play with The Red Stare.
Step right up to VR Funhouse and enter a virtual carnival full of fun and games. Be an archer with flaming arrows. Test your skill shooting skeet targets blasted from a cannon. See how many moles you can punch, whack, and much more.
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Accounting (Legacy)
Single-player alternative to The Red Stare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Red Stare.
The modern field of Accountancy is a serious and honorable profession. Many human beings have spent their lives toiling over the hard science of numbers. Thousands have died so that we may get to the level of understanding that we have today. Thousands have died.