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Single-player games like PROJECT: PLAYTIME

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to PROJECT: PLAYTIME, 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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    OverNight — Steam game cover

    OverNight

    Single-player alternative to PROJECT: PLAYTIME — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.

    OverNight is a multiplayer co-op Ghost Hunting horror with multiple Ghosts per session. Explore some of the most haunted locations with your friends, using a variety of paranormal equipment, engage in rituals, and attempt haunted communications to connect with the other side.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Backrooms Lost Runners — Steam game cover

    Backrooms Lost Runners

    Single-player alternative to PROJECT: PLAYTIME — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.

    Backrooms Lost Runners is a co-op survival horror with team play, voice-reactive AI, and immersive puzzles. This isn’t a “walking simulator”: explore liminal spaces, outsmart entities, and remember—even a whisper can give you away.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Backrooms: The Phobolore — Steam game cover

    Backrooms: The Phobolore

    Single-player alternative to PROJECT: PLAYTIME — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Early Access with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.

    Backrooms: The Phobolore is a cooperative multiplayer online horror game for 1-4 players. In this game you will take control of a character who woke up in an unknown place and does not remember anything, your task will be to pass the game levels trying to remember who you are...

    2024IndieAdventureEarly Access1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Unknown — Steam game cover

    The Unknown

    Single-player alternative to PROJECT: PLAYTIME — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.

    You and Your Team Of 4 Players Hunt down Paranormal Entities While Trying to Survive The Night Solving Paranormal Cases of the Unknown in this Online horror Multiplayer Game

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dream Eaters.exe — Steam game cover

    Dream Eaters.exe

    Single-player alternative to PROJECT: PLAYTIME — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.

    Trapped in a secret sleep experiment, you and your friends must survive terrifying nightmares, completing tasks to wake up before it's too late. Play solo or in co-op, but beware the experiments are never the same and something watches from the dark.

    ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Poppy Playtime — Steam game cover

    Poppy Playtime

    Single-player alternative to PROJECT: PLAYTIME — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.

    You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Agonize — Steam game cover

    Agonize

    Single-player alternative to PROJECT: PLAYTIME — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.

    Once a mad scientist's lab, now an abandoned manor haunted by miscreations. Work as a 1-4 player team in this online co-op, psychological horror game and discover what lurks within. Find a cure before it's too late...

    2022ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Outlast Trials — Steam game cover

    The Outlast Trials

    Single-player alternative to PROJECT: PLAYTIME — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.

    Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

    2024ActionIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →