Single-player games like The Initiate
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to The Initiate, 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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The Initiate 2: The First Interviews
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Three people awake in adjacent prison cells with no recollection of how they got there. Now, they must work together in order to escape this nightmarish captivity. But can they really trust one another?
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The Guest
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Initiate.
'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.
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The Crow's Eye
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Initiate.
In an abandoned medical university, test your intellectual might as you unravel a 20-year-old mystery in this depraved first-person puzzle adventure, doing what it takes to escape your fate as a macabre scientist's human experiment. The ends justify the means in The Crow’s Eye.
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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
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Resonance
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Initiate.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
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The Spectrum Retreat
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Initiate.
Check-in to The Spectrum Retreat for a stay you won’t forget. Manipulate your way to the truth in this captivating narrative-driven puzzler.
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Initiate.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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The 7th Guest
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Initiate.
Henry Stauf's mansion has been abandoned for as long as anyone dare remember. Stauf was a master toy maker, a maker of amazing puzzles and this strange house was his greatest creation. Now the mansion stands empty, rotting ever since the children started dying, ever since the six guests came.
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Silent Descent
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Silent Decent is a highly-immersive first-person horror game with a rich and engaging atmosphere. Trapped in purgatory, you play as Samuel Harris who roams in an endless loop of anguish, pain and suffering. Can you find a way to save a tormented man's soul?
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The Secret Monster Society
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Initiate.
A classic point-and-click comedy adventure game, set in a unique world of monsters and creatures. Embark on an epic adventure across land and sea, using time travel to stop an evil genius from destroying the world. Inspired by Saturday morning cartoons.
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ALONE? - VR
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Immerse yourself in a true VR Horror game. Explore and experience a fully immersive world as you embark on an ghostly adventure unlike anything you have played before. Come face-to-face with terror itself as you look for your missing sister.
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ESCAPE: The Cabin
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Trapped in a remote cabin, solve over 70 puzzles and uncover your captor's identity in this first-person horror escape-room game. Inspect and combine items, follow hidden clues, and face randomised solutions that change between playthroughs.