Single-player games like Rise of Insanity
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Rise 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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Ritual Static
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
"Do you think a house can dream?" Ritual Static is a surreal first-person photography horror game following a young man in his childhood home the day before a big move. Surf the television, sink into static, and rot in the dark.
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Chance at Life
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Insanity.
The events unfold in an old house built in 1876. Two friends returning from a party were caught in a storm. They had to stay in an abandoned house to wait out the bad weather. To survive, the friends had to unravel the secrets of the mansion, go after the one who is trying to help.
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Clink
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
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Layers of Fear (2016)
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
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.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
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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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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LOST ZION
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
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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Fuck You Witch
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Your best friend has confessed her love for you... but the problems don't stop there. You've started to hallucinate. All this interferes with sleeping and eating, and in general disrupts your ideal lifestyle. Yell obscenities at the witch, immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the Qazaq steppes
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Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey, considered to be one of the finest adventure games ever made.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise 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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The Cat Lady
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Midnight
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Precision puzzle platformer. Launch a square fairy through 56 deadly levels using only your mouse.
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The Purge Day
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rise of Insanity.
The Purge Day is the first person narrative, immersive horror shooter designed exclusively for VR. Choose your weapon and fight against alien swarm in Asian agglomeration.
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Kamikaze Veggies
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
A stealth adventure game with an absurd-driven story and third-person perspective for a single-player or co-op. Complete secret war missions, solve the showy puzzles, and save the veggies world!
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Smells Like a Mushroom
Single-player alternative to Rise of Insanity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Boomer jokes ✅ Vegetable puns ✅ Strange characters ✅ Join the Aveggers to fight through the solar system in a dynamic third-person platformer shooter and defeat the alien mushroom invasion. 99% silly, 100% vegan!