Single-player games like The Complex: Found Footage
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Complex: Found Footage, 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 Complex: Expedition
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Found Footage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Complex: Found Footage.
When a routine expedition into The Complex goes horribly wrong, you're left alone and lost, wandering the seemingly infinite maze of hallways, otherwise known as the Backrooms. Might there be something following you?
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Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Found Footage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Complex: Found Footage.
The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Found Footage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Complex: Found Footage.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Found Footage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Complex: Found Footage.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Found Footage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Complex: Found Footage.
Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Found Footage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Complex: Found Footage.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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The Town of Light
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Found Footage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Complex: Found Footage.
12 March 1938, Renée, 16, was ripped out of her world, her only fault was that of not knowing her place in the world.
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Mundaun
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Found Footage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Complex: Found Footage.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.