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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A Service Call
Single-player alternative to Lying Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lying Souls.
Your first assignment alone. An island where no one has lived for thirty years. A lighthouse that stopped shining. The job was only supposed to take a few hours.
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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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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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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.