Single-player games like MOTHER
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to MOTHER, 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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Lost in Vivo
Single-player alternative to MOTHER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MOTHER.
A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.
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SEVERANCE
Single-player alternative to MOTHER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MOTHER.
Severance is a 1-5 player paranormal investigation game… with a twist. Use tools and equipment to identify the correct ghost type while a dangerous, violent entity hunts you down. The twist? YOU can become the ghost. Choose Ghost AI, or an asymmetrical mode where a player takes the Ghost role.
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to MOTHER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MOTHER.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to MOTHER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MOTHER.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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Scrutinized
Single-player alternative to MOTHER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MOTHER.
Work to expose the numerous criminal degenerates that plague your quiet town. Use citizen-issued reports, police records, social media accounts, text conversations, and more to determine who’s an actual threat and who’s harmless, all while avoiding the killers trying to infiltrate your home.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to MOTHER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MOTHER.
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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Project Songbird
Single-player alternative to MOTHER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MOTHER.
Project Songbird is a cinematic first-person narrative horror game set in the Appalachian forest. Take on the role of Dakota, a musician who must record their new album in a remote log cabin amidst a writer's block. Take caution, however. These woods were never empty...
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to MOTHER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MOTHER.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.