Single-player games like Transient: Extended Edition
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Transient: Extended Edition, 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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SIGNALIS
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
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Call of Cthulhu®
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
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>observer_
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
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LOST ZION
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Lost Zion is an atmospheric cyberpunk horror game. Awakened by a faint signal as a service bot, explore the forsaken megacity of Lost Zion. Uncover the Emperor's horrific secrets. Obey your sole command: Activate the Gravity Core.
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The Alien Cube
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
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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Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.
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The Sinking City Remastered
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
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Observer: System Redux
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
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Into The Matrix
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
"Into The Matrix" is a multiplayer horror game where you and your friends must explore, survive, and outsmart dangers . Many entities are after you, but the Overseer is the true threat. Can you escape its grasp?
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Magrunner: Dark Pulse
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, penned by H.P. Lovecraft. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles.
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Conarium
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Alone in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
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moon: Remix RPG Adventure
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Don't be a hero. Experience the love. Experience moon. moon is an anti-RPG steeped in story and character, mood and music.
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Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
In "The Dark Lineage" you re-take the role of police detective Howard Loreid, a man tormented by the paranormal happenings around him. Howard discovers that his own terrible past has some connection to the madness that is about to swallow him, yet again.
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Lunacy: Saint Rhodes
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Lunacy: Saint Rhodes is a first-person psychological horror adventure game. Explore your dark family history, solve puzzles and experience a gut-wrenching feeling of terror. You are being watched; never alone, never safe.
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Veil of Madness
Single-player alternative to Transient: Extended Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
In Veil of Madness, the mind is the battlefield and your deck is your only weapon. Plunged into a first-person nightmare, you'll battle horrors without and madness within through strategic card combat and harrowing psychological mystery.