Single-player games like Anglerfish
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Anglerfish, 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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Liminal Void
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Anglerfish.
This is an art horror game where you snatch souls, cast spells, and die repeatedly. Select from 4 colorful characters and occasionally listen to them yap about their problems. It's very "mood." No penalty for death and you'll have fun even when you lose.
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The Baby In Yellow
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anglerfish.
You've got a new babysitting job, and things are taking a turn for the weird. Feed him, read him a bedtime story, and try not to fall into his dreams. How long can you stay in control?
- 3
Security: The Horrible Nights
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
Every time you die, a new story begins. You are the nighttime security guard at a hospital. Your job is to monitor the hospital and fix problems when they happen. Every night, a new horror tale will unfold. If you can survive enough nights, you will learn the truth behind all the horror!
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Loan Shark
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anglerfish.
The loan shark is coming for you. Catch enough fish to repay your debt before it is too late. Go fish.
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The Floor Above
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Anglerfish.
A claustrophobic anomaly-horror game where you can only turn, blink, and decide: is it real or not? Survive five endings and uncover Mike’s story.
- 6
Lamentum
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
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Within the Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anglerfish.
You don't know how you got here, and you don't know how you'll leave. Wander the depths of the Backrooms in hopes of finding something more.
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LISA: The Painful
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anglerfish.
The miserable journey of a broken man...
- 10
Big Trouble in Little Chimney
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
Krampus is Coming! Grab your Shotgun, finish your hot punch and don't forget your mission: Save the Christmas! Big Trouble in Little Chimney is highly-addictive and fast paced arena bullet-hell shooter.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Help! I am REALLY horny!
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anglerfish.
Help! I am REALLY horny! is a highly interactive adventure dating game where you color the tale along the way in unforeseeable ways through your choices and your dick slapping and tit swinging inputs.
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The ER: Patient Typhon
Single-player alternative to Anglerfish — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Anglerfish.
The ER: Patient Typhon is an atmosphere and exploration horror game where you are a young woman who has lost her arms. You have to use your wits, hide and run to survive this tale of deadly monsters and disturbing, environmental puzzles.