Single-player games like The Backrooms Project
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Backrooms Project, 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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SOMA
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms Project.
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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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms Project.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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Neverending Nightmares
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms Project.
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms Project.
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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Outlast
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms Project.
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 Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms Project.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms Project.
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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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms Project.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.