Single-player games like Desert of Vice
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Desert of Vice, 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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Desert of Vice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
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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CARRION
Single-player alternative to Desert of Vice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
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SUNLESS SEA
Single-player alternative to Desert of Vice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Desert of Vice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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Observation
Single-player alternative to Desert of Vice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
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The Last Door - Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Desert of Vice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England. Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark.
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Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure
Single-player alternative to Desert of Vice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Crazy cultists. Cthulhu. A talking cat. Gibbous takes you on an expansive, traditionally animated, hand-painted adventure. Play as three protagonists and explore a lushly rendered Lovecraft-inspired world, unraveling ancient conspiracies. A comedy cosmic horror adventure made in Transylvania!
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Eldritch
Single-player alternative to Desert of Vice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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Ladderhead
Single-player alternative to Desert of Vice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
A surreal narrative focused roguelite text adventure. In it you play a man stuck in the same day who has to get to the top floor of an unusual building to find his loved one. Each floor is a perilous mystery to unravel. Each time you die the day resets.
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Strange Aeons
Single-player alternative to Desert of Vice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
You are stuck in gnostic cyber-hell. The followers of your cult are summoning you. Chat with an offline neural net AI through the microphone to escape hell and return to the land of the living.