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Single-player games like Ghost Stories

Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Ghost Stories, 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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    Last Floor — Steam game cover

    Last Floor

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.

    Оne day your life changes dramatically and you become a hostage of your own home. Your task is to survive but to do this you need to get outside.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Outlast — Steam game cover

    Outlast

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.

    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.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Arizona Sunshine® — Steam game cover

    Arizona Sunshine®

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.

    Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Beast Inside — Steam game cover

    The Beast Inside

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.

    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.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition — Steam game cover

    Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.

    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.

    2009ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Penumbra Overture — Steam game cover

    Penumbra Overture

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.

    Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.

    2009ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Eldritch — Steam game cover

    Eldritch

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.

    Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slender: The Arrival — Steam game cover

    Slender: The Arrival

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.

    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.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Highway Game — Steam game cover

    Highway Game

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ghost Stories.

    Funny and dynamical race with nice graphics in which you have to driving between cars, get away from police and get to finish line first.

    2019IndieCasualRacing1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ghost Stories 2 — Steam game cover

    Ghost Stories 2

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.

    This is an exciting adventure in an abandoned house in which you are left alone with ghosts and their heavy stories.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Last Village — Steam game cover

    Last Village

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghost Stories.

    Arriving on a hunt in a small village, you become a witness to attack of alien forces on the ground, armed with a shotgun, you decide to repulse the alien intruders.

    2021ActionAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    NMNE — Steam game cover

    NMNE

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost Stories.

    You find yourself inside your dream, which turns into one continuous nightmare.

    2021IndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bug Dolls: Soviet Project — Steam game cover

    Bug Dolls: Soviet Project

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghost Stories.

    This is a horror game about a small town engulfed in dangerous dolls.

    2022ActionAdventureFree To PlayFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Evening Vibes — Steam game cover

    Evening Vibes

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghost Stories.

    Find the girl, escape from the terrible demon and solve riddle of this place.

    2022ActionAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Neuro Horror — Steam game cover

    Neuro Horror

    Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The first psychological horror in history, in the format of a visual novel, created using a neural network.

    2022Casual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →