Single-player games like The Light Keeps Us Safe
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Light Keeps Us Safe, 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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Sir, You Are Being Hunted
Single-player alternative to The Light Keeps Us Safe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Keeps Us Safe.
Sir, You Are Being Hunted is a freedom sandbox stealth experience, where each playthrough is unique, thanks to our British Countryside Generator. Escape from these robot-infested islands with violence, trickery and stealth. This brutally funny game is available for Windows, OSX, and Linux.
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to The Light Keeps Us Safe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Light Keeps Us Safe.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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CASE: Animatronics
Single-player alternative to The Light Keeps Us Safe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Keeps Us Safe.
CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror on PC. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?
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The Persistence
Single-player alternative to The Light Keeps Us Safe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Keeps Us Safe.
Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.
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SILENT HILL: Townfall
Single-player alternative to The Light Keeps Us Safe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Light Keeps Us Safe.
Returning to an island town to ‘put things right’, Simon Ordell descends into a world of tense evasion, explosive confrontations, and mind-bending puzzles that slowly surface the truth of St. Amelia.
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Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Single-player alternative to The Light Keeps Us Safe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Keeps Us Safe.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to The Light Keeps Us Safe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Light Keeps Us Safe.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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The Evil Within 2
Single-player alternative to The Light Keeps Us Safe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Light Keeps Us Safe.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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The Signal From Tölva
Single-player alternative to The Light Keeps Us Safe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Light Keeps Us Safe.
The Signal From Tölva is an open-world first-person shooter set on a distant, haunted, future world. Unlock savage weapons and recruit robots to fight alongside you as rival factions struggle to discover the source of the mysterious signal. What you discover will decide the fate of a world.
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AVSEQ
Single-player alternative to The Light Keeps Us Safe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Light Keeps Us Safe.
AVSEQ is an audio-visual sequencer puzzle game. Connect falling atoms to unlock near-endless varieties of music at each stage. Every level of AVSEQ is a music sequencer with 2.2300745198530623×10^43 possible audio permutations, that's 22 tredecillion in total! No, we're not making those numbers up. We actually did the math.