Single-player games like Lucid Cycle
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Lucid Cycle, 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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POOLIMINAL
Single-player alternative to Lucid Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Cycle.
POOLIMINAL is an exploration-horror experience set in endless pool rooms. The smell of damp tile, muffled water sounds, and corridors that lead nowhere... until the water finds you. A thalassophobia-driven horror journey through liminal aesthetics.
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Box of Broken Nails
Single-player alternative to Lucid Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Cycle.
First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
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The Signifier Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Lucid Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Cycle.
This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.
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What Happened to Lily?
Single-player alternative to Lucid Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Cycle.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
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Panelak
Single-player alternative to Lucid Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Cycle.
Panelak is an old socialist-era building where strange things happen. Can you make it to the roof and help the helpless man?
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THRESHOLD
Single-player alternative to Lucid Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Cycle.
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
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The Strange Lights
Single-player alternative to Lucid Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Cycle.
You have arrived in a forest where people are rumored to disappear and strange things happen... Locals often see bright flashes and hear strange sounds...
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No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut
Single-player alternative to Lucid Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lucid Cycle.
A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.