Single-player games like Lily's Well
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Lily's Well, 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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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Lily's Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lily's Well.
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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Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
Single-player alternative to Lily's Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lily's Well.
Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.
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House
Single-player alternative to Lily's Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lily's Well.
Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Lily's Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lily's Well.
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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Subliminal
Single-player alternative to Lily's Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lily's Well.
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
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OneShot
Single-player alternative to Lily's Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lily's Well.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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SHUT IN
Single-player alternative to Lily's Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lily's Well.
SHUT IN is a dark comedy/psychological horror adventure game which explores depression and isolation by trapping you inside your own house. Explore a hostile home, solve puzzles, and withstand sarcasm from a rude and unreliable narrator. Idiot.
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Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Single-player alternative to Lily's Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lily's Well.
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
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Lost Cartridge - Cold Read
Single-player alternative to Lily's Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lily's Well.
While trying to find a payphone during a powerful storm, Mitch instead finds himself in a library filled with horrors and traps all laid out to end his life. Guide him to sanctuary or his demise in this horror adventure game found on a strange cartridge.