Single-player games like The Initiate
Below are 11 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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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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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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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Magnetic: Cage Closed
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first person puzzle game where the player manipulates magnetic forces to accomplish their goals. The mechanics are focused around a single tool: The Magnet Gun which allows you to create electromagnetic fields with either positive or negative charges.
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Ad Infinitum
Single-player alternative to The Initiate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Initiate.
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
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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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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 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.