Single-player games like Beside Myself
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Beside Myself, 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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Paranormal place
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beside Myself.
Alex is a blogger who explores places with paranormal phenomena. At the request of his subscribers, he goes to an abandoned place where, according to rumors, some creepy things were noticed. What is happening there? You have to find it out.
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Holidays in Khrushchevsk
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beside Myself.
Do you like spontaneous purchases? Do all your purchases bring you happiness? Everything is not as simple as it seems at first glance.
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Find Yourself
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Beside Myself.
Explore the truly frightening subway cars and find out what fears the main character will have to face.
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Explore The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Beside Myself.
A backrooms game full of story puzzles, monsters and places to explore
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Heroin Hero
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beside Myself.
Chase the dragon in an absurd parody with no goal, no map, and no mercy. A satirical trip through addiction, trees, and your own brain. You might catch him. You might not.
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Lost Child
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beside Myself.
Are You Lost? Wander endless corridors where shifting environments, sinister voices, and echoes of real events create a chilling atmosphere. Andrey doesn’t remember who he was, but the walls know the truth. It’s time to remember everything.
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Writer. Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beside Myself.
You, the legendary writer, the “King of Horror,” find yourself at the center of a nightmare. A mysterious place, frighteningly familiar, hides sinister secrets. Explore locations, solve riddles, escape from the monster, collect a story that will become a new masterpiece... if you survive.
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IFU
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beside Myself.
IFU is a psychological horror about a young guy who is forcibly locked in an abandoned mansion of a dead surgeon along with his restless soul.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beside Myself.
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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Visage
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beside Myself.
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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Summer of '58
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Beside Myself.
In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.
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You Must
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Beside Myself.
In the social network, the main character plays the quest "Hide and Seek", but this time the organizers decided to move the quest to the real world. They indicate the coordinates of the place where the quest item was hidden, the one who finds it first will receive a cash prize.
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INQUIR P.T.
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beside Myself.
A post-apocalyptic story-based action adventure game. Fully customizable weapons and a high mobility character. Zombie horde mode and full of action, blood, brutality.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Beside Myself.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Life after Death
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beside Myself.
Do you remember the scares that chased you in childhood? How did your limbs shake with fear, take your breath away, and you couldn't do anything about it? I invite you to live it all over again!
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Lonely Christmas
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beside Myself.
It’s a story about an 8-year-old boy Kevin who was left alone at home at Christmas. Protect your house from a crazy robber and wait for your parents. Can you handle with it? We’ll find out.
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No Return Address
Single-player alternative to Beside Myself — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Beside Myself.
Night shift at a distribution center. Ordinary packages go forward, strange ones go to reject. Just don’t make a mistake when the boxes start containing things that should never be there.