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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Murder Castle
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
You are trapped inside a masterpiece of madness. Unravel the chilling mystery of H.H. Holmes Murder Castle. In this atmospheric true crime escape simulator, every room is a puzzle and every document a shocking discovery. Can you escape the architect of death?
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Human Farm
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
Welcome to Human Farm🐽 – an alternate, Orwellian world where Pigs became the dominant species. Humans are degraded to farmed meat. Create and develop your own slaughterhouse. Your goal: conquer and dominate the human meat industry. Millions of hungry snouts are waiting to be fed!
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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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Oxide Room 104
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
A bone-chilling body-horror game with escape room gameplay. Bad decisions have brought Matthew to this terrifying motel. Now it’s up to you to decide how to escape - will you make it out alive?
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The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
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Terror At Oakheart
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
The renowned slasher horror films of the 1980s and 1990s serve as a source of inspiration for Terror at Oakheart. The community of Oakheart has been terrorized by Teddy, a masked serial killer. As the body count rises, you discover there is more going on here than just a man in a mask.
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Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea!
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
Try and navigate your way through one of the world's most tightly controlled dictatorships, with two cute soldiers by your side. Avoid getting shot, executed, black-bagged, or tried for treason as you explore Pyongyang's most famous tourist attractions.
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Scorn
Single-player alternative to The Hole — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hole.
Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.