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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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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In The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."
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Backrooms: Eight Levels
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you..."
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Where the Walls Breathe
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Where the Walls Breathe is a first-person psychological horror experience with a strong focus on atmosphere and environmental storytelling.
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BACKROOMS LIMINAL ESCAPE
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
BACKROOMS: LIMINAL ESCAPE is a VHS-style horror game where you explore eerie liminal spaces through a camcorder. BACKROOMS: LIMINAL ESCAPE is More than just a walking sim, it features intense levels that require you to hide, run, stay quite, and survive in a creepy, analog nightmare.
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Shhh!
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Explore haunted locations with your VHS camera—but stay silent! Any noise could be your last. (Microphone required)
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Ways
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Complex: Expedition.
A lone urbex in an abandoned hotel - what could go wrong? Explore the surroundings and find the mysteries of this place. Don't forget to be quiet - urbex is an illegal adventure, and you don't want to be found...
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The Transference
Single-player alternative to The Complex: Expedition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Escape from your own house, in which you have been locked up. But be careful, you will not be alone in your captivity. Immerse yourself in this first-person horror adventure, full of family secrets and betrayals. And find out who and why they locked you up.
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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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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.