Single-player games like ShadowSide
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to ShadowSide, 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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Investigator
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.
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Clink
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
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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The Solus Project
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
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Uninvited Guest
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
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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Rise of Insanity
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.
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The Station
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
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Virginia
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.
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ColdSide
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
ColdSide is a psychological horror first-person game. It takes place in an abandoned underground laboratory that studied anomalous phenomena.
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STILLTRACE
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with ShadowSide.
STILLTRACE is a bleak top-down survival horror about holding the last beacon in an infected sector. Scavenge for supplies, fortify your base, survive attacks, and decide whether to follow strange radio calls, tracks, and the stories left behind