Single-player games like Distrust: Polar Survival
Below are 13 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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HOW
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distrust: Polar Survival.
A psychological horror game where you play as a prisoner exploring the depths of a large and horrific medical facility. You must survive the many creatures and abominations inside and find all the secrets hidden within the strange new labyrinth.
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Solicitude Wake-up
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Immersive virtual reality horror survival game Solicitude Wake-up takes you to seemingly abandoned research facility. You wake-up in a dark operating room, laying down on operating table. You need to survive and find your way out.
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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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Deadnaut
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Deadnaut is Screwfly Studios' second game and follow up to cult hit, Zafehouse: Diaries. Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same.
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AMOK
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Protagonist of the game is investigating the disappearance of people. The investigation leads him into an old house, and then it becomes a party to the strange and dangerous events.
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Trench Face
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distrust: Polar Survival.
Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner. Every enemy varying in strengths and weaknesses. Escape the trench with your life.
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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 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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The Nothing
Single-player alternative to Distrust: Polar Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Distrust: Polar Survival.
The Nothing is a surreal and atmospheric action game with a new aesthetic, procedurally generated elements and perma-death - Designed for multiple short "runs", with endings based on the route you've chosen and the actions you've taken.
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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.