Single-player games like Need a packet?
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Need a packet?, 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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黄泉園(Yomi no Sono)
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Need a packet?.
A first-person horror exploration where Japanese mythology meets thalassophobia. With no power to resist, observe and evade as you wander the otherworld of Yomi. Flee, or bear your karma and seek atonement—your choices shape the ending. Yomi sees all that you are.
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Blind Boris
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Blind Boris is a survival horror about a blind person. The character arrives to the hospice and a week later strange things begin to happen in him. Staff disappears, terrible sounds are heard outside, exit doors are tightly locked, and aggressive visitors enter the building.
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Lighthouse Keeper
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.
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MADiSON VR
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Need a packet?.
MADiSON VR now plunges you even deeper into its immersive and terrifying world. With the utilization of an instant camera in your virtual hands, bridge the gap between our world and the unknown. Snap photos, develop them by yourself to solve puzzles, explore the shadows and above all, survive.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Trapped and isolated in the abandoned town of Little Hope, 4 college students and their teacher must escape the nightmarish apparitions that relentlessly pursue them through an impenetrable fog.
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Rise of Insanity
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Need a packet?.
In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.
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Deathtrap
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood.
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The Cat Lady
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
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the Line
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Need a packet?.
The Line is a rogue-like / dungeon crawler with a turn-based combat system. The main object is to stand out the long line for resettlement from the oppressive east segment of the city.
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Vasilis
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Vasilis is a hand-drawn adventure game. The main character – Vasilis, lost her husband – Peter, in the rebellious city center. The city is in riots for a long time and almost everyday something burns or someone dies.
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TUTUTUTU - Tea party
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Rhythm game about a tea in a train!
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This rain will never end - noir adventure detective
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
This rain will never end unless you discover who killed the mayor of the city!
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Babba Yagga: Woodboy
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Baba Yaga is a horror game, where you play as a wooden boy who needs to bring sleeping herbs for his mum, but on the way, he meets the BABA YAGA! After that everything becomes more brutal and scary.
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Brutalism22
Single-player alternative to Need a packet? — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
This is a retro horror game about the war in Ukraine and brutalist architecture in Eastern Europe