Single-player games like Helltown
Below are 15 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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Claustrophobia
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
Claustrophobia offers a scary and dark horror experience filled with blood boiling moments, first you will have to silently move your way through the darkness, until you can pick up arms and discover the truth. Can you figure out what is hiding in this grueling subterranean facility?
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Quantum Resonance
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
In Quantum Clove, science has crossed every limit and opened doors to another world—letting unimaginable horrors through. Alone and unaided, you must find a way to escape the underground complex… before it’s too late.
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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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Evil Nun: The Broken Mask
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
Enter Evil Nun's nightmare. Trapped in a cursed school, escape from Sister Madeline. She's cunning, searching every corner, luring and talking to you depending on your actions. Solve puzzles, craft items, and uncover the mystery in this horror game with different escape routes.
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NEDRA
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
NEDRA is a story-driven, atmospheric action-adventure blending survival horror with cosmic terror. Set in a Soviet-era Antarctic station, all the explorers have vanished without a trace, leaving you to uncover the chilling truth.
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The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Helltown.
Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…
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Amnesia: Rebirth
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.
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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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Twin Peaks VR
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
Twin Peaks VR brings people into the world of Twin Peaks using the immersive technology of VR. Based on the iconic television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, players will be able to experience several locations from the show including the Red Room, Glastonbury Grove, Sheriff's Department, Glass Box Observation and more.
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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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AMNESIA
Single-player alternative to Helltown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helltown.
After a series of events now shrouded in mystery, our protagonist - a young man - fell into a coma, losing all recollection of the person he used to be. He is given a clean slate. All that’s left to do now is to carefully and thoroughly investigate every facet of your former self.
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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.