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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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.
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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.
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Pineview Drive
Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.
A one-of-a-kind horror shocker – a game aware of your fear!Check out the improvements introduced with Update 2.0!
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.
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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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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.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Ghost Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghost Stories.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.