Single-player games like Sur 2D Horror
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Sur 2D Horror, 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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The Smiling Flesh
Single-player alternative to Sur 2D Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sur 2D Horror.
The Smiling Flesh is a tense, single-player survival horror where you play as a thief trapped in a decaying gothic mansion. Solve puzzles, explore forgotten halls, and outsmart a twisted entity that learns your movements. Find the treasure, or become the mansion's next victim.
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Bughouse
Single-player alternative to Sur 2D Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sur 2D Horror.
Play as Christopher, a kid left home alone with a terrifying STALKER on the loose! Try and survive in this 80's, PS1 inspired, Home Invasion Survival Horror game - OR DIE TRYING!
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The Backrooms Project
Single-player alternative to Sur 2D Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sur 2D Horror.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
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Escape the Ayurok DEMAKE
Single-player alternative to Sur 2D Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sur 2D Horror.
Re-experience the classic Escape the Ayurok adventure through this Demake, solving more complex puzzles and exploring new places with the old camera angles of 90’s horror games.
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Lamentum
Single-player alternative to Sur 2D Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sur 2D Horror.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Bleak Faith: Forsaken
Single-player alternative to Sur 2D Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sur 2D Horror.
Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.
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Dead of Darkness
Single-player alternative to Sur 2D Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sur 2D Horror.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
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Chicken Feet
Single-player alternative to Sur 2D Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sur 2D Horror.
Chicken Feet is a first person survival-stealth horror game about a giant, angry chicken. Descend into the depths of GOOBER laboratories and uncover the horrors that lie beneath the lab's shiny façade.
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Sur: Wheelchair Horror
Single-player alternative to Sur 2D Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sur 2D Horror.
Sur is a horror and survival game inspired by genre classics. Help Vanessa, in her wheelchair, explore Uroko Hospital and escape the creatures hunting her, while facing a plot full of twists and turns.