Single-player games like Where's Oswald
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Where's Oswald, 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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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Where's Oswald — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Where's Oswald.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Where's Oswald — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Where's Oswald.
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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Layers of Fear (2016)
Single-player alternative to Where's Oswald — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Where's Oswald.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Where's Oswald — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Where's Oswald.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Where's Oswald — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Where's Oswald.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Luto
Single-player alternative to Where's Oswald — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Where's Oswald.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Where's Oswald — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Where's Oswald.
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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Where's Oswald — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Where's Oswald.
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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The Gap
Single-player alternative to Where's Oswald — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Where's Oswald.
The Gap is a short first-person horror experience taking place in a ghostly abandoned house on a lonely street corner.
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OWLMAN
Single-player alternative to Where's Oswald — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Where's Oswald.
The following is a series of tapes recovered near the Overlook National Park where four people were recently reported missing- a family of three and one motorist.