Single-player games like The Subject
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Subject, 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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What Happened to Lily?
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
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There's Something In The Ice
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
In 2015, three scientists at the Antarctic research station "Zarya" drilled into the ice to a depth of 2 kilometers and took samples for study... It seems that what they found was not at all what they were looking for...
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Backrooms: Lost Tape
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
You work in the cinema as an usher and accidentally fell into the Backrooms, now being trapped, needing to unravel the mysteries of the yellow rooms in order to get out of this place, but be careful, there are entities that will be in your way.
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Locked Up
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Subject.
The game “Locked Up" is the first project developed in 2020 by the studio EMIKA_GAMES consisting of one person.
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Moons of Madness
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Subject.
Moons of Madness is a first-person, story-driven cosmic horror game where the scientific exploration of Mars meets the supernatural dread of Lovecraft.
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Kairo
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Kona
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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AMNESIA
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
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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The Mortuary Assistant
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
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Dread X Collection 5
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
A horror anthology in the Dread X Collection series. Featuring 12 new games from up-and-comers along with veterans, all wrapped up in an old, run down party venue that may be hiding more than it's letting on...
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Our Secret Below
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
Abducted with only four hours to live… Learn about your captor, use your knowledge to escape, end the cycle.
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Inner
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Subject.
Face your subconscious in an ever-growing anthology of mini-games dealing with psychological and surreal concepts.
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Kohate
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
Arrested and sold at auction, you have been transported to a secret testing facility in deep space. Perform the required tasks while avoiding the abomination lurking within the complex.