Single-player games like Scholar's Mate
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Scholar's Mate, 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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Out of Sight
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
You’re Sophie, a young blind girl who sees through her teddy bear’s eyes. Escape your captors and uncover the evil history of the dark mansion you desperately seek to escape in this unique, atmospheric horror puzzle/adventure game.
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Lazaret
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
Lazaret is an atmospheric first-person horror game. You play as a member of a rescue team called out to investigate a distress signal coming from a ship that disappeared 4 years ago.
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Emissary Zero
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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Partum Artifex
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
A first-person atmospheric horror-puzzle game that focuses on the narrative to tie together the gruesome world with creative puzzles. Explore the mind of a twisted serial killer who wants nothing else than to show his work of art as well as tell his story to the world.
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Uninvited Guest
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.
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Granny Remake
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
Granny Remake is a gripping horror game where you must escape from a sinister house chased by a cunning and relentless Granny. Choose from multiple escape routes: drive away in a car, call the police, or unlock the main door
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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
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Farlands
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scholar's Mate.
Congratulations, you’ve bought your own planet! An agrarian rock at the edge of the galaxy that, for some reason, was practically being given away for free. So the time has come to leave your hectic, stressful life in an overcrowded metropolis for a more rural and rewarding life.
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Evil Inside
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.
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Caveman Warriors
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
Jump back in time and free your inner caveman. Smash heads in this local cooperative platformer game. Play solo or team up with up to 4 players. Inspired by games like New Super Mario, Joe & Mac, Metal Slug and Trine.
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Piwall
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scholar's Mate.
Play a neon pinball machine in the arcade room and take a look at the released and upcoming JanduSoft games.
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Indiecalypse
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
Experience the REAL LIFE OF AN INDIE GAME DEVELOPER through one of the 3 characters of the game. An artist, a programmer or a Musician. Discover how each of the characters' personalities degenerates THROUGH DARK HUMOR MINI-GAMES. Because making videogames is not easy.
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Mystic Fate
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
Help young Aris to solve the mystery of the fall of Asfand and It’s guild of alchemists, avenge the death of her brother, discover the limits of her powers all of that and more inside a 3D voxel action adventure game where you control weapons made of metal.
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Evil Inside - Prologue
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.
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Scholar's Mate - First Move
Single-player alternative to Scholar's Mate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scholar's Mate.
Scholar's Mate First Move is a first-person horror experience in a psychiatric hospital. Use your wits to escape from this sinister place.