Single-player games like SOULS
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to SOULS, 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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Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with SOULS.
Umineko When They Cry is the 2nd series of Sound Novel released by 07th Expansion. The steam version features renewed character sprites which is swappable from the classic art.
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Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with SOULS.
This is the 2nd half of the Umineko When They Cry sound novel series, featuring episodes 5 through 8. This steam version features multi-language options, swap-able renewed character sprites, as well as the original BGMs and un-cut content.
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RETRIEVAL
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOULS.
RETRIEVAL is a first-person psychological horror game where you explore a looping house, collect scattered memory fragments, and search extracted keywords in an old computer terminal to uncover a tragic truth.
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SYNESTHESIA
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOULS.
🌀 Is there an escape to the endless spiral?🌀 『SYNESTHESIA』 is an emotive, character driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Join a group of college students with strange cognitive powers, who soon discover something is amiss at the institute sworn to help them...
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Siren's Call: Free Beta Edition
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with SOULS.
This is an outdated, public beta for Siren's Call: Escape Velocity. Home is where your body is. And like any good tourist trap, Siren’s Call will do whatever it can to keep you there as long as possible. They will drag you down like crabs in a bucket. They will make this place home.
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The Hidden and Unknown
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOULS.
The Hidden and Unknown is a story-based game, that aims to widen the perception of its audience in the areas of psychology and philosophy.
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SS.Archives
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOULS.
This is a text adventure game with elements of horror, suspense, and puzzle-solving. Players take on the role of a detective, encountering various mysterious cases. These cases may be bizarre, eerie, or seemingly calm on the surface, but with turbulent undercurrents beneath.
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Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with SOULS.
Wonderful Everyday is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the end", "literature and science", "savior and hero", "brother and sister".