Single-player games like Puppet House
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Puppet House, 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 Lightkeeper
Single-player alternative to Puppet House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Puppet House.
Alone on a remote island, you're tasked with keeping a lighthouse. But the horrific events that claimed the lives of previous keepers still whisper through the air. Each day, the line between reality and delusion fades and something in the dark is waiting for the last keeper
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Luto
Single-player alternative to Puppet House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Puppet House.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
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REVEIL
Single-player alternative to Puppet House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Puppet House.
REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.
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Witch's Doll
Single-player alternative to Puppet House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Puppet House.
Witch's Doll is a first-person psychological horror game with realistic graphics. Beware, something is lurking in the dark. Get ready for intense jumpscares.
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Dark Pals: The 1st Floor
Single-player alternative to Puppet House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Puppet House.
In this singleplayer mascot horror game you're trapped in an abandoned children’s asylum. Solve twisted puzzles with your Ink Blaster, evade its disturbing mascots, and uncover secrets you had long forgotten about. Do you remember?
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BrokenLore: LOW
Single-player alternative to Puppet House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppet House.
BrokenLore: LOW is a psychological horror game set in a mist-covered, beautiful Japanese village, blending hyper-realistic graphics with low-poly elements. The main enemy is the Gashadokuro, a yokai from Japanese folklore.
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Incantation
Single-player alternative to Puppet House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Puppet House.
A mother, searching for her lost daughter, stumbles into a strange cult village. "Incantation" is a first-person horror game. It reveals the chilling story behind the "Chen Family Village". What are the consequences of crossing dark boundaries?
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A.I.L.A
Single-player alternative to Puppet House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Puppet House.
A.I.L.A is a first-person horror game set in a near-future filled with immersive technology. Play as the sole game tester for a revolutionary new fictional AI. Survive intense horror experiences that prey on your deepest fears as the lines between virtual and reality begin to blur…
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Puppet House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Puppet House.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Puppet House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppet House.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Puppet House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppet House.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Puppet House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.