Single-player games like ShadowSide
Below are 9 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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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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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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Shadows Peak
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with ShadowSide.
Shadows Peak is an atmospheric, open-world horror game focused on exploration that doesn't hold your hand. You play as a writer who has decided to visit a mysterious place called Shadows Peak to gather materials for a new book about legends.
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Dark Fall: The Journal
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with ShadowSide.
This Myst-style horror-adventure game will bring fear into your heart. From the very beginning you are exposed to an overwhelming but invisible ghost presence – strange calls, footsteps, voices from nowhere. In order to help your brother and survive you will need to solve the mystery of this abandoned, haunted place. And remember!
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to ShadowSide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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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