Single-player games like Lost Cartridge - Cold Read
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read, 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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Lily's Well
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
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Those Who Remain
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.
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Who's Lila?
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
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Panelak
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
Panelak is an old socialist-era building where strange things happen. Can you make it to the roof and help the helpless man?
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Dreams in the Witch House
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
Navigate the eerie world of Dreams in the Witch House, a unique blend of point-and-click and RPG-adventure. Unravel occult mysteries in Arkham, maintain your sanity, and survive the May-Eve in this Lovecraftian horror game.
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Bad Dream: Stories
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
Bad Dream: Stories is a collection of older games in the Bad Dream series in a new, remastered form. Play the series of short point & click titles and travel through the disturbing and atmospheric world of dreams.
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SHUT IN
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
SHUT IN is a dark comedy/psychological horror adventure game which explores depression and isolation by trapping you inside your own house. Explore a hostile home, solve puzzles, and withstand sarcasm from a rude and unreliable narrator. Idiot.
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Heartworm
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
Pass through the threshold and enter a world born of memories. Defend yourself with a camera while solving death’s mysteries in a reverent evolution of 90’s survival horror, integrating both fixed cameras and over the shoulder perspectives.
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The Witch's House
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
There is an old house on the edge of a small town. All the locals have always avoided it, as strange and mysterious events constantly happen there. This time, what happened in this house made the whole city shudder with fear.
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Mad Father
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
Witness the tale of a most foolish family. A remake of the classic horror exploration game makes its way to Steam.
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The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
You find yourself in a strange world with no idea how you got there. As you explore more, the world gets increasingly convoluted and unstable. You are now in... The Backrooms.
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Corpse Party (2021)
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
Explore the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary in Corpse Party (2021), the horror cult classic now updated for the next generation.
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The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
The Backrooms is a first person survival horror game set in one of the most terrifying environments of the human psyche. Explore an ever evolving nightmare while running from terrifying creatures to stay alive.
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Ib
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
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MiSa
Single-player alternative to Lost Cartridge - Cold Read — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Cartridge - Cold Read.
MiSa is a single-player horror adventure game where the player moves through five locations in the mind of the main character Mark. The goal of the game is to find a way from the world of illusions to reality, successfully distinguishing between them.