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Single-player games like The Bad Kids

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to The Bad Kids, 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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    银魂:Silver Soul — Steam game cover

    银魂:Silver Soul

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bad Kids.

    Silver Soul is a first-person horror adventure game based on a sci-fi thriller. The story tells the story of a young man who falls off a cliff while being chased to the top of a mountain by the army, but enters another part of the earth where alien creatures fall, who is good and who is evil.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Paper Bride — Steam game cover

    Paper Bride

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bad Kids.

    Paper Bride is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game. You will play as the groom to search for the truth and have bizarre encounters, gradually learning about the dark mystic custom in the bride's home village and a story from the past...

    2021IndieAdventureRPG7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Detention — Steam game cover

    Detention

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bad Kids.

    Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.

    2017IndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Silent Love — Steam game cover

    Silent Love

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bad Kids.

    This is a terrorist decryption adventure game that took place in 1913.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Luto — Steam game cover

    Luto

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bad Kids.

    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.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    School 666 — Steam game cover

    School 666

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bad Kids.

    School 666 is a 1-4 Player Co-op Survival Horror. You must escape this endless nightmare. Try to identify the correct path and survive the anomalies in this endless school. Some extremely powerful anomalies will catch you to their dimensions. Explore the reason why you are here... and don't die.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Black Sheep — Steam game cover

    Black Sheep

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bad Kids.

    Black Sheep" is a 2D story-driven adventure game, you will play a high school student who explores the flooded school ruins, trace the shadow of the past, and unveil the evil those buried in the bottom of the river to see the light of day.

    2022IndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication — Steam game cover

    The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Bad Kids.

    Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…

    2024Adventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Cat Lady — Steam game cover

    The Cat Lady

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bad Kids.

    The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...

    2013IndieAdventure8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cyber Manhunt — Steam game cover

    Cyber Manhunt

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Bad Kids.

    Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.

    2021IndieSimulationRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator — Steam game cover

    Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Bad Kids.

    Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.

    2025IndieSimulationRPG12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    全网公敌:诡村 — Steam game cover

    全网公敌:诡村

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Bad Kids.

    本作是与《全网公敌》联动的全新故事,通过一台“旧电脑”进行互联网搜索解密的剧情互动游戏。你作为一名特殊调查员,需要负责解开隐藏在“登山客意外失踪”背后的超自然事件。随着调查深入,始作俑者也渐渐浮出水面,“祂”,似乎又与四十多年前消失在大火中的白河村,有着千丝万缕的联系。

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    全网有点怪 — Steam game cover

    全网有点怪

    Single-player alternative to The Bad Kids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Bad Kids.

    You are Zhu Jue, an ordinary college student who loves browsing online. You just wanted to focus on your studies, until a fateful encounter with a mysterious girl trapped inside a computer disc. Thus begins a grand adventure in this seemingly virtual world...

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →