Single-player games like Fade to Silence
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Fade to Silence, 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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Osiris: New Dawn
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fade to Silence.
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fade to Silence.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
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METAL GEAR SURVIVE
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
METAL GEAR SURVIVE builds upon MGSV’s stealth action gameplay with elements of exploration and survival creating a bold new experience. *An internet connection is required to play the game.
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Whisper of the Swallows
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fade to Silence.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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NieR:Automata™
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fade to Silence.
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
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Outward Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fade to Silence.
No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.
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Destroy All Humans!
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The cult-classic returns! Terrorize the people of 1950's Earth in the role of the evil alien Crypto-137. Harvest their DNA and bring down the US government in the faithful remake of the legendary alien invasion action adventure. Annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities.
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Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Crypto is back with a license to probe. The alien invader returns, groovier than ever. Experience the swinging ‘60s in all its chemical-induced glory and take revenge on the KGB for blowing up your mothership. You’ll have to form alliances with members of the very species you came to enslave.
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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds.
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Rogue Stormers
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An action packed platform shooter mashed-up with roguelike and RPG elements, crazy 3D graphics and co-op multiplayer for one to 4 players.
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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Rise of the Owlverlord
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a fast-paced platformer that will plunge you into the heart of two opposing worlds.
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Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Watch Bubsy glide like a bat, jump like a jack rabbit, bounce like a red rubber ball and run…run Bubsy run. This is the Bubsy adventure you were born to play.
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Giana Sisters: Dream Runners
Single-player alternative to Fade to Silence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Race to the finish in Giana Sisters: Dream Runners, a fast-paced, head-to-head platformer for up to four players.