Single-player games like PARANOID
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to PARANOID, 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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Ad Infinitum
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with PARANOID.
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
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Visage
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with PARANOID.
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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with PARANOID.
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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Supernormal
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with PARANOID.
Inspired by Allison Road. SUPERNORMAL is a psychological horror game set in a seemingly ordinary apartment harboring dark secrets. Play as Detective Wyatt, tasked with unravelling the disappearance of Masato Sakamoto's daughter. Search for clues and unravel the sinister truth.
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Beyond Hanwell
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with PARANOID.
Explore Westminster, London on a journey to the ruins of Hanwell. Fight with whatever you can find or use the environment to defend yourself against an ever increasing scourge of Anomalies.
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A.I.L.A
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with PARANOID.
A.I.L.A is a first-person horror game set in a near-future filled with immersive technology. Play as the sole game tester for a revolutionary new fictional AI. Survive intense horror experiences that prey on your deepest fears as the lines between virtual and reality begin to blur…
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Rise of Insanity
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with PARANOID.
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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Who's at the door?
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with PARANOID.
You are trapped in a small house, suffering from psychosis with no memory. Carefully observe your surroundings to distinguish reality from hallucinations, and overcome your illness by taking medication from visitors at the right time.
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SUCCUBUS
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with PARANOID.
Become a demonic priestess of lust and use her unique skills to take revenge on your enemies. Regain your kingdom making hell tremble under your hooves! Leave no one alive if they won't bend the knee.
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Condemned: Criminal Origins
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PARANOID.
What twists the mind of an ordinary human into a serial killer?
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with PARANOID.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Agony
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with PARANOID.
Agony is a first-person, survival horror set in hell. You will begin your journey as a tormented soul within the depths of hell without any memories about your past. The special ability to control people on your path, and possess demons, gives you the measures to survive.
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Agony UNRATED
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with PARANOID.
Agony UNRATED is a first-person, survival horror set in hell. You will begin your journey as a tormented soul within the depths of hell without any memories about your past. The special ability to control people on your path, and possess demons, gives you the measures to survive.
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Nymphomaniac - Sex Addict
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with PARANOID.
A visually stunning story about a nymphomaniac who loves her body, sex and adrenaline. All this presented in a photorealistic audiovisual setting.
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TORMENTOR
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with PARANOID.
Take on the role of a merciless torturer. Earn money from video transmissions of your manhunts.
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SUCCUBUS: Prologue
Single-player alternative to PARANOID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with PARANOID.
Become a demonic priestess of lust and use her unique skills to take revenge on your enemies. Regain your kingdom making hell tremble under your hooves! Leave no one alive if they won't bend the knee.