Single-player games like The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game, 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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Psycho Fear
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Psycho Fear is a heart-pounding escape room puzzle where players must escape to survive. Solve challenging puzzles, overcome deadly obstacles in an intense atmosphere, nerve-wracking and dark environment will keep players on edge.
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The Backrooms Project
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
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Deepscape Inc
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
A 2 to 4 player co-op horror game. You wake up marked with an ID number you can't see on your own back. Only your fellow inmates can read it. Find each other, share your numbers, reach your validation rooms, and get out before whatever roams the halls finds you first.
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MADiSON
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.
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Poppy Playtime
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
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.
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THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion is a survival horror game. Contains Fear, Stealth, Exploration/Puzzle solving, Item management. Moreover "Multiple First-Person Views" provides a new level of fear, immersion, strategy. Steal the vision of "something" lurking in the abandoned house and try to survive.
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Anomaly Core: Hospital
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
You are a patient. You should avoid treatment at the old hospital. The crazy doctor's strange methods raise doubts. The treatment may not go as you imagine.
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Little Devil
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Little Devil is a survival horror game for up to 5 players. You set out to look for your friend, but will you survive?
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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
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 Mortuary Assistant
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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CAPTURED
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Trapped in what appears to be an endless hallway in your home, rooms begin to feel unfamiliar. Capture anomalies on camera and stay away from any sinister entities.
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The Voidness - Lidar Horror Survival Game
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
The Voidness is a SCI-FI psychological horror game where it takes place inside the void where it's filled with just gloom - the only way to see is by scanning the environment with your range finder device, however you are not alone. Don't breathe ... as they are listening.. and watching.
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Trenches - World War 1 Horror Survival Game
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Trenches is a First-Person World War l Survival Horror Game where you have to escape the claustrophobic environment and experience the war from the eyes of a soldier caught behind enemy lines in this surreal nightmare as you fight for your life and sanity to get back home to your family.
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Rotten Flesh - Cosmic Horror Survival Game
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Rotten Flesh is a cosmic horror survival game where you have just lost your dog named Roy and you have to find him by shouting for "ROY" on your microphone. Venture deep into the sewers where your dog was lost - however, something else can also hear your screams in the tunnels.
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Baby Blues Nightmares - Toddler Horror Game
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Baby Blues Nightmares is a survival horror stealth game where you play as a toddler going into a little adventure with your tricycle which you can fix, maintain and customize. Paddle, hide and survive but remember; try not to cry when you are scared.. or the monsters will hear you and get you.
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The Stairway 7 - Anomaly Hunt Loop Horror Game
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
The Stairway 7 is an endless loop anomaly hunt and observation "spot the difference" game where you are stuck in a endless loop of stairways with a cat and you have to observe your surroundings carefully to reach the exit. Anomalies are watching, and ready to hunt you down. Don't take them with you.
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The 18th Attic - Paranormal Anomaly Hunting Game
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
The 18th Attic is a psychological horror game where you play as a man trapped in the attic with your cat companion, armed only with a camera. Hunt down paranormal anomalies by taking their pictures and detecting their presence to unravel secrets of your past. Each photo unlocks a new memory.
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Medievaly: Battle Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Feeling Medievaly? Travel to the most vibrant version of the Dark Ages yet to defend your kingdom from encroaching enemies! Devise creative strategies, manage resources, and enjoy a dynamic simulated medieval battlefield where every decision matters and the unexpected will always happen!
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Where Dolls Hang
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Where Dolls Hang is a survival psychological horror game where you investigate a place plagued by strange and unsettling events filled with hanging dolls. Explore dangerous locations, gather evidence, uncover hidden secrets, and use your boat to confront the unknown as you search for answers.