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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The Alien Cube
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
A cursed legacy awakens something ancient, revealing a terrifying reality never meant for human eyes. Follow your missing uncle’s trail, uncover forbidden secrets, and face a Lovecraftian cosmic horror in this first‑person adventure.
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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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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Subject.
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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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
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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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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
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Don't Be Afraid
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…
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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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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.
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Playable Archive
Single-player alternative to The Subject — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Subject.
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