Single-player games like Tear Factory
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Tear Factory, 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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SUBJECT 404
Single-player alternative to Tear Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tear Factory.
A PSX-style psychological horror game where rapid-fire microgames become a system of obedience. Read the Panel’s commands, react before time runs out, and survive each room — or face the Executioner.
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Barbotine
Single-player alternative to Tear Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tear Factory.
An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.
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Invasion of The Halloween Fiends
Single-player alternative to Tear Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tear Factory.
Invasion of The Halloween Fiends is a First-Person Retro horror game that takes place on Halloween Night. Strangers keep visiting you looking for candy. Some of them may not be so friendly. Will you be able to survive Halloween Night?
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EPONYMOUS
Single-player alternative to Tear Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tear Factory.
EPONYMOUS: In Which a Work Is Known by Its Reading is a short-form narrative about unreliable infrastructures.
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Fibrillation HD
Single-player alternative to Tear Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tear Factory.
Immerse yourself in an adaptation of an old story about Ewan Berrington.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Tear Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tear Factory.
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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No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut
Single-player alternative to Tear Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tear Factory.
A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.
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Seybul Tech
Single-player alternative to Tear Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tear Factory.
Seybul Tech is a walking simulator. Navigate as an office employee, confronting peculiar encounters while in search of an exit from this enigmatic abyss.
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Bus Simulator 23
Single-player alternative to Tear Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Drive your daily bus route and reconnect with an old friend