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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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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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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Mayfly
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
Mayfly is an eerie story-based quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Upon waking alone to find your husband is missing you find yourself weaving through a shifting, unstable reality as you search your confined surroundings in this short narrative exploration game.
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Farsight
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
Something is very wrong with your eyes. A routine eye exam pulls you into the house inside the machine. Beware. The figures in the image are closer than they appear.
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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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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to The Lies We Tell Ourselves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lies We Tell Ourselves.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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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.