Single-player games like Cut to the Core
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Cut to the Core, 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 Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Cut to the Core — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cut to the Core.
He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
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Downfall
Single-player alternative to Cut to the Core — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cut to the Core.
There is nothing Joe wouldn't do for his wife. But as they try to save their marriage with a romantic getaway, things go from bad to worse, and from worse... to insanity...
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CORPSE FACTORY
Single-player alternative to Cut to the Core — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Cut to the Core.
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Cut to the Core — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cut to the Core.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Neverending Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Cut to the Core — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cut to the Core.
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
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Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Single-player alternative to Cut to the Core — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Cut to the Core.
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
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Wednesdays
Single-player alternative to Cut to the Core — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cut to the Core.
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
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The Dark Inside Me
Single-player alternative to Cut to the Core — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cut to the Core.
Psychological horror adventure game from a horror movie director based on dynamic scenario. The Dark Inside Me, is a very unique psychological horror adventure game from a horror movie director Akçay Karaazmak, based on dynamic interactive scenario.