Single-player games like Santa Claws
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Santa Claws, 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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Near Death
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Santa Claws.
Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Santa Claws.
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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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Santa Claws.
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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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Santa Claws.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Santa Claws.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Santa Claws.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Santa Claws.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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Mundaun
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Santa Claws.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
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The Narrator Is a DICK
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Santa Claws.
In this narrated platformer there's one man who's always out to get you... The Narrator. He's a real jerk, but with determination and a lot of skill MAYBE you can make it through this crazy adventure.
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Blaster Shooter GunGuy!
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Santa Claws.
Blaster Shooter GunGuy is a 2D action rage platformer. Similar in nature to games such as IWBTG. But also inspired by Mega Man and Mega Man X.
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Aesthetic Melody
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Santa Claws.
Sit back and enjoy 30 minutes of original electronic and vaporwave music in this challenging platformer, push forward to unlock Time Trial mode and a second playable character who completely changes the gameplay.
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The Narrator is a DICK : Longer, Harder, and Uncut
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Santa Claws.
In this narrated unfair platformer there's one man who's always out to get you... The Narrator. He's a real jerk, but with determination and a lot of skill MAYBE you can make it through this crazy adventure. Remastered with new Online Co-Op and Extended gameplay!
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Seeds of Friendship
Single-player alternative to Santa Claws — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You've just inherited your grandfathers farm, and already someone wants to take it. The evil Mega Corp Regeneration has it's sights set on your land, but with how hard you work they won't even get close! Build, grow, and restore an animal sanctuary. The future of the island depends on it!