Single-player games like The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to The Lies We Tell Ourselves, 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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Oblivio
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
Your memories are fracturing. Explore an evocative story of love and loss through shifting realities. Solve puzzles to hold on to the moments that define you before they vanish forever.
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Bleeding Nightmare | 血に染まる悪夢
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
Descend into the fever dreams of a traumatized young man in a first-person psychological horror game about grief, trauma, and fractured memories. Confront the horrors of your past and find a way back home from Hell. KNOCK, AND THEY WILL ANSWER.
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Invisum Piscium 嫌魚
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
Explore a familiar world that can never be fully understood.
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This Is Not For You
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
After a ghost ship crashes into an isolated lighthouse, Ulysses’ memories come back to trap him in an endless, twisting maze full of riddles, blood, and magic. Draw your own map, and find a way to burn it all down.
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Cryphora
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
A remote mountain cabin, a raging snowstorm, and the line between reality and madness begins to blur. Make difficult choices, explore surreal worlds, and confront what waits in the dark.
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Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
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What Happened to Lily?
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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REVEIL
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Layers of Fear (2016)
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.