Single-player games like Bigfoot Forest
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Bigfoot Forest, 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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Bughouse
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
Play as Christopher, a kid left home alone with a terrifying STALKER on the loose! Try and survive in this 80's, PS1 inspired, Home Invasion Survival Horror game - OR DIE TRYING!
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
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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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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Those Who Remain
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bigfoot Forest.
As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.
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CRYO
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
CRYO is a multiplayer co-op survival horror for 1-4 players. You have been deployed by your company to various locations around the Antarctic due to communication issues. What awaits you in these dark, remote regions is far more sinister than a technical fault...
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CASE: Animatronics
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror on PC. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Bigfoot Forest.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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Dude Simulator
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
Dude Simulator is an open world sandbox game. This is a life simulator. The main objective is to enjoy what you are doing.
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Dude Simulator 3
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
Dude Simulator 3 is an open world sandbox game. It is your friend’s birthday tomorrow. You have already bought him a present, now you only have to give it to him. But your friends lives in another city, quite far from you.
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Dude Simulator 2
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
Dude Simulator 2 is an open world sandbox game. This is a life simulator. The main objective is to enjoy what you are doing.
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Great Toilet Simulator
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
Great Toilet Simulator is a first-person indie horror telling you the story of a man who has his car broken on his way home, in the middle of a thick forest. What makes the situation even worse is that the main character is really in need of a toilet.
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Fat Prisoner Simulator
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
Fat Prisoner Simulator - a soccer simulator where you play the role of a prisoner. The jail managers have noticed that some prisoners, who really like to eat a lot, can hardly go through the doors, including those of their cells. So they decided to arrange a soccer game between them.
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Dude Simulator 4
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
Dude Simulator 4 – a first-person open-world sandbox game with a plot. Some new adventures are awaiting the dude. The main character of the game decides to meet a girl through a mobile dating app, but during a date someone attacks him.
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Francisca
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
Today my parents went to Mexico for a week, and I’m gonna have to spend seven days alone in our new house.
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Soccer Player Simulator
Single-player alternative to Bigfoot Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bigfoot Forest.
Soccer Player Simulator – a physics-based soccer simulator. The main feature of the game is the unpredictable behavior of the players on the pitch.