Single-player games like Smile
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Smile, 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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Deep Sleep: The Beggining
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Smile.
Discover the truth about winderfield, the ghost town and solve the mysteries.
- 2
Spectral Scream
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Smile.
Spectral Scream is a 1-4 player cooperative horror exploration game. Are you ready to face death in the maw of purgatory? Your goal is to find key items in each chapter and retrieve the orb. But be careful! Threatening and vicious creatures await you at every stage.
- 3
Agonize
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile.
Once a mad scientist's lab, now an abandoned manor haunted by miscreations. Work as a 1-4 player team in this online co-op, psychological horror game and discover what lurks within. Find a cure before it's too late...
- 4
Backrooms: Lost Tape
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile.
You work in the cinema as an usher and accidentally fell into the Backrooms, now being trapped, needing to unravel the mysteries of the yellow rooms in order to get out of this place, but be careful, there are entities that will be in your way.
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Everything Is For Humanity
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile.
Everything is for Humanity is a story-driven, exploration and puzzle-solving based science fiction horror game which sets in a massive science facility in 2020. You will discover tons of things and find out about the blood-chilling truths with its first-person experience.
- 6
Five Nights at Freddy's 4
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Smile.
In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows.
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Poppy Playtime
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile.
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
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Granny Remake
Single-player alternative to Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile.
Granny Remake is a gripping horror game where you must escape from a sinister house chased by a cunning and relentless Granny. Choose from multiple escape routes: drive away in a car, call the police, or unlock the main door