Single-player games like Helltown
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Helltown, 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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Lost in Vivo
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Helltown.
A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.
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Uncanny Valley
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
Uncanny Valley is a survival horror game that includes a mix of exploration, puzzle solving and a bit of action with a lot of optional story content. We're trying to preserve the old survival horror kind of gameplay instead of following the modern trend of creating a third person shooter with horror elements.
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House
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.
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Skinfreak
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Helltown.
The city’s most disturbing serial killer is at large and has his sights set on Belle. Can she escape this maniac’s fleshy, rotting clutches? Or will she lose her skin to this sicko’s collection?
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
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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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Helltown.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Born of Bread
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
Get ready to go on a wacky and joyful turn-based RPG adventure! Play as Loaf, a freshly baked flour golem, and explore the different regions of a wonderful world ripe with mysteries with the help of a colorful cast of characters.
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Caput Mortum
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Helltown.
Travel back to 16th-century France and delve into the mysterious depths of a seemingly abandoned alchemist's tower. Do you dare brave the horrors that beckon you below... deeper still?
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Fright Train
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
Fight through a train overtaken by monsters and survive Antarctica’s cold as paranormal special agent Doug Barker in this chilling single-player third-person survival horror roguelite.