Single-player games like Close To The Sun
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Close To The Sun, 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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Gray Dawn
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close To The Sun.
Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.
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The Town of Light
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close To The Sun.
12 March 1938, Renée, 16, was ripped out of her world, her only fault was that of not knowing her place in the world.
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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close To The Sun.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close To The Sun.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close To The Sun.
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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Apsulov: End of Gods
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close To The Sun.
In this future viking horror you awake in a sanctuary of steel and concrete, built to research and exploit the worlds of Yggdrasil, and to house an artifact, buried in the earth aeons ago.First person with a futuristic Norse mythology story. Horror adventure in the realms of Yggdrasil.
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close To The Sun.
From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
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Observation
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close To The Sun.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
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BioShock™
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Close To The Sun.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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Steel Seed
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close To The Sun.
Steel Seed is a stealth-action adventure set in a dark sci-fi world on the brink of extinction. Play as Zoe and her drone Koby as they explore a hostile underground facility. Uncover secrets, survive dangers, search for answers, and humanity’s last hope.
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N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close To The Sun.
N.E.R.O. is a wonderful journey in a world of incredible beauty, a story driven first-person game with puzzles and intuitive controls where the environment is connected to the characters and their past. The world of N.E.R.O. is magical and varied, making exploring an ongoing challenge.
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ENKI
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close To The Sun.
ENKI is a repeatable horror experience about escaping, featuring multiple endings that will ensure you that every playthrough will be a bit different from the previous one. In only 30 minutes find your way to freedom through occult symbolism, mysteries and discoverable secrets... Survive or die!
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Lantern
Single-player alternative to Close To The Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Close To The Sun.
Be the wind and guide a beautiful lantern that spreads the powerful message of everlasting love, by bringing life and color back to the world around you. Lantern is a relaxing game experience full of positive emotions.