Single-player games like 408 - The Forbidden Room
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to 408 - The Forbidden Room, 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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Silver Chains
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
Silver Chains is a first-person horror game with a strong emphasis on story and exploration. Search for clues within an old abandoned manor to unravel the truth about the terrible events which have happened.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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Grunn
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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Visage
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
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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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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Mirror Forge
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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Fear in The Modern House - CH2
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
A psychological horror game, based on horror movie stories, in which you live Josh's life, dubbed and subtitled.
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Fear in The Modern House - CH3
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
Face the challenges behind this supposedly cursed residence, solve puzzles, find hidden objects, and find a way to escape this place without getting caught.
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Until Lights Out
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
A beautiful Christmas night that was interrupted, by a haunting and terrible curse. Look for an answer to all this, and maybe you have a chance to survive.
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Dawn Of Hell
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
Explore the cursed village and discover the sinister secrets it hides. Survive a terrible night and solve puzzles as you try to escape the curse that plagues the place. Experience tension and fear at every step in this horror game.
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REC: Beyond The Lens
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
REC: Beyond The Lens is a first-person horror game that tells the story of an unresolved past, with realistic graphics. Explore an unknown location, investigating dark secrets while using a body camera to document every step
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Amidst The Haze
Single-player alternative to 408 - The Forbidden Room — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 408 - The Forbidden Room.
Enter a world where survival becomes a lethal game. In "Amidst The Haze", your simple trip to the supermarket turns into a terrifying nightmare when a thick, unfathomable fog engulfs the city, isolating the supermarket as the only safe haven.