Single-player games like Lying Souls
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Lying Souls, 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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Once Upon A Mind - A Little Too Friendly
Single-player alternative to Lying Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lying Souls.
A story-rich psychological horror inspired by real-life experiences. Follow Emily, 23, as she moves to Brooklyn for a fresh start, but finds herself drawn into a slow spiral of obsession and control. Featuring voice acting, this atmospheric and grounded experience is deeply unsettling.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Lying Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lying Souls.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Never Again
Single-player alternative to Lying Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lying Souls.
Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.
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Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Single-player alternative to Lying Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lying Souls.
Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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Ikai
Single-player alternative to Lying Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lying Souls.
Fear and anxiety prevail after the darkest tales from Japanese folklore come to life in this first-person psychological horror game. Set in a feudal era, Ikai revolves around the priestess of a shrine struggling to defeat the spirits of her past and her present.
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CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
Single-player alternative to Lying Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lying Souls.
A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.
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Mucorales
Single-player alternative to Lying Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lying Souls.
An enthralling RPG Maker horror game that explores a dark and twisted rendition of the classic fairy tale, Red Riding Hood.
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Last Days of Lazarus
Single-player alternative to Lying Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lying Souls.
After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.