Single-player games like The Skeleton
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Skeleton, 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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Outlast
Single-player alternative to The Skeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Skeleton.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Bendy and the Dark Revival
Single-player alternative to The Skeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Skeleton.
Bendy and the Dark Revival® is a first-person survival horror game set in the creepiest cartoon studio to ever exist. Discover the truth. Escape the studio. Above all, fear the Ink Demon…and survive.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to The Skeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Skeleton.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to The Skeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Skeleton.
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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Resident Evil Village
Single-player alternative to The Skeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Skeleton.
Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.
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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to The Skeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Skeleton.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to The Skeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Skeleton.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi
Single-player alternative to The Skeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Skeleton.
It is a misty evening in the year of our lord 1912. The Pattersons, a poor but proud aristocratic family of the British nobility, and some of their closest friends, arrive at the castle Malachi residence of a wealthy Romanian Count.