Single-player games like The Complex: Expedition
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Complex: Expedition, 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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Subliminal
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Complex: Expedition.
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
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Dreamcore
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?
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POOLS
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
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Liminalcore
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.
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Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.
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CAPTURED 2
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Complex: Expedition.
You're trapped in an apartment with ever-changing rooms. Capture anomalies on camera, survive deadly entities and escape an endless nightmare.
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The Exit 8
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Complex: Expedition.
You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".
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Backrooms: Lost Tape
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
You work in the cinema as an usher and accidentally fell into the Backrooms, now being trapped, needing to unravel the mysteries of the yellow rooms in order to get out of this place, but be careful, there are entities that will be in your way.
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Backrooms: The Game
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Backrooms is a creepypasta that contains randomly generated office rooms that seem endless. The walls are mono yellow in color. It is also an eternal paradox.
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The Complex: Found Footage
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Complex: Expedition.
Experience the liminal world of the backrooms through a VHS camera, immersing into a mysterious story and wandering the dream-like structures... Might there be something following you?