Single-player games like Distrust: Polar Survival
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Distrust: Polar Survival, 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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2Dark
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distrust: Polar Survival.
2Dark is a stealth adventure game developed by Frédérick Raynal, the pioneer of survival horror games and creator of Alone in the Dark®. Make your way through the lairs of psychopaths, unravel intrigue where madness mingles with horror, and, above all, save the kids!
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Arcticide
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Explore dangerous procedural cities and landscapes in this gritty survival FPS with roguelike elements. Face harsh environments, hostile mercenaries, and inhuman horrors as you navigate a dying near-future Arctic.
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Sea of Change
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Sea of Change is a game that blends exploration with strategic base defense. Build, defend, and expand your base against waves of enemies, all while uncovering the mysteries of a dynamic world that shifts with every playthrough. Set sail to find islands and collect resources. How long can you last?
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Hero Tower
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Play as the Hero as he is dropped into the Hero Simulation Machine MKI and take-on a tower full of puzzles and monsters. Equip a variety of tools and weapons found in chests on each floor, that have limited uses and reset every floor, giving each one a unique challenge.
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Endhall
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Endhall is a byte-sized roguelike. Become an artificial intelligence and combine tactical actions to defeat your enemies and reach the end of the hallway.
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PARANOID
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Paranoid is a horror that tells the story of Patrick who has been living in isolation from the outside world for many years. One day he receives a phone call from his sister, who announces her visit more than a dozen years after she disappeared.
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Lethal Company
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distrust: Polar Survival.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distrust: Polar Survival.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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Don't Starve
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distrust: Polar Survival.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
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The Thing from Nowhere
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".
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The Thing: Remastered
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing
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I am not a Monster: First Contact
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Retro sci-fi tactical turn-based strategy with an exciting storyline. The Albatross space liner is overrun by lizard-like monsters that can infect humans and turn them into their own kind. Save the passengers and defeat the hostile creatures.