Single-player games like Recluses
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Recluses, 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
- 1
Black Rope Hell - Ximen Qing
Single-player alternative to Recluses — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recluses.
《黑绳话·西门庆》是一款取材自《金瓶梅》与《水浒传》的中式暗黑互动叙事游戏。你将化身徘徊生死之间的西门庆，在阳谷城重走酒、色、财、气四道黑绳，于开放街区、亡宅冷房、雨伞铺与酒楼中探查旧债。每次选择都会改变业障、净魂与人物命运；收集三魂七魄，唤醒困于魂瓶中的李瓶儿。与潘金莲、王婆、武松及更多原著人物周旋，通过影像分支、物件回忆、AI人物自由对话与皮影共演，改写熟悉却未必注定的结局。试玩版开放第一结完整轮回。
- 2
Tales from the Dark Manor
Single-player alternative to Recluses — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recluses.
Tales from the Dark Manor is a narrative visual novel where you play as a struggling journalist given a limited time to interview supernatural beings inside a mysterious manor where the laws of logic no longer apply. Every choice uncovers a new secret.
- 3
Zero Viewers
Single-player alternative to Recluses — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recluses.
A third-person psychological horror streaming simulation where you secretly livestream from a psychiatric hospital, explore restricted areas, manage viewer reactions and danger, and choose between chasing more extreme content or uncovering the hospital’s hidden truth.
- 4
Stuck in the Present
Single-player alternative to Recluses — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recluses.
Stuck in the Present is a 3D side-scrolling psychological horror title where two friends relive painful memories within the uncanny depths of twisting subway stations in a large, unfamiliar city.
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Mirages
Single-player alternative to Recluses — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recluses.
Mirages is a 3D narrative and horror game with folk stories. One night, seven brides headed to the Captain Mansion but strayed into a place full of ghosts - Regret City. Horror haunts the small town. Due to destiny, actors, warlords, and offspring of the town are drawn in. They are closer to truth.
- 6
The seven days i spent with you
Single-player alternative to Recluses — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recluses.
With the enigmatic girl who imprisoned you――seven days in an unfamiliar room.
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Mucorales
Single-player alternative to Recluses — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recluses.
An enthralling RPG Maker horror game that explores a dark and twisted rendition of the classic fairy tale, Red Riding Hood.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Recluses — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Recluses.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
- 9
Boring in paradise
Single-player alternative to Recluses — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Recluses.
Two arcade games in one: "Antipain" & "Antitrolley". The first is a pseudo-three-dimensional runner. The second is "anti-G.T.A.", which deals with the "trolley problem".