Single-player games like The Patient: After Hours
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to The Patient: After Hours, 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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Barbotine
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.
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Tear Factory
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
A game about hunting rats, feeding them to your family, and going to bed.
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Hypnagogia 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Meet colorful characters, discover mysterious secrets, and reassemble the fractured remains of an ethereal crystal as you explore a series of abstract worlds based on dreams, nightmares, and the places in between.
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The Attic
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Explore a strange and mysterious complex to find your missing son. Can you sneak through the depths of loss and survive the horrors that stalk you in The Attic? A first person cinematic experience with a haunting soundtrack.
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Studio Sim
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Assume the role of an abstract painter in Studio Sim, a chill, escape room–inspired first-person art game. Create paintings using collage techniques, publish your work online, and push your creativity with limited tools. An experimental art game built in Godot.
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Liminal 98
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Navigate four procedurally generated liminal spaces. Reach the exit. Beat your time. Something may be watching.
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SLUDGE LIFE
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
SLUDGE LIFE is a first-person / open-world / vandalism-centric stroll through a polluted island full of cranky idiots and a vibe so thick you can taste it.
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Kairo
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
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Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A horror anthology shooter in the Dread X Collection series. Co-produced by DUSK creator David Szymanski. Featuring 7 new short games, a robust launcher world set in an abandoned arctic base.
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They Look Like People
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
A Psychological story game set within a Kubrickian world. A tale of Space & Adventure into the Abyss of your mind, two astronauts come into close encounters with an unknown object during a routine mission.
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Daemonum
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Detective Andrews is called to a residence after a message is placed to dispatch regarding a disturbance. Not everything is as it seems, leaving you to question your own sanity whilst figuring out how to escape with your life.
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You Are Liam: Shadow Memories
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
You have done some things you're not proud of. Now you must enter your own mind to come to terms with the things you've done. Loop around rooms, solve puzzles and hide from different monsters as you uncover your own truth.
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Chronicles from the Abyss
Single-player alternative to The Patient: After Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Chronicles from the Abyss is a collection of 4 twisted Horror & Thriller stories that will play on the darkest corners of your mind, & every choice drips with dread. Twisted plots, haunting art, and chilling secrets await. Ready to uncover what lurks beneath?