Single-player games like The Hole
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Hole, 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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Bulb Boy
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows. Gather the courage and use his glass head to save everything he loves.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
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.
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The Blind Prophet
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
A point'n'Click adventure game. Resolve mysteries and fight the Great Evil.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Centum
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Hole.
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
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.