Single-player games like The Children's Friend
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Children's Friend, 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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SHUT IN
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Children's Friend.
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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POSTAL
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Take control of The POSTAL Dude in his infamous first outing as he battles to survive in a world gone mad! POSTAL is a classic isometric shooter filled to the brim with fast-paced explosive action.
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Mindlock - The Apartment
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Children's Friend.
Colin’s apartment maze has puzzles, dialogues, and some dry humor waiting for you. A surreal adventure of a special kind.
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Bed Lying Simulator 2020
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Simulator of lying on a bed. Or lying to a bed. Or maybe the bed is lying. Is your bed lying to you?
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Case 00: The Cannibal Boy
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Children's Friend.
Case 00: The Cannibal Boy is a half-hour visual novel partly based on a true story, written by a writer with a background in psychology. It is a psychological horror story with an urban legend theme.
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Chair F*cking Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Use our innovative patented funky fresh ChairF*cker simulation tech to meet the chair of your wildest dreams.
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The Baby In Yellow
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Children's Friend.
You've got a new babysitting job, and things are taking a turn for the weird. Feed him, read him a bedtime story, and try not to fall into his dreams. How long can you stay in control?
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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Children's Friend.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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Draconic Route
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In the 1980s arcade game taste, stoic and polished tactics.
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Playable Mockup
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Explore an infinite loop corridor and get to 0 PM to 0 AM by building a "Time manipulation deck". You will be challenged with a life threatening test. Wander the “Dead Soul Corridor” created from a ghost photo. Find a way to get to the soul of the dead.
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国際指定怪異123号 廃村
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
毎年出現する「廃村」と呼ばれる奇妙な無人村には、必ず１人の少女が生贄として幽閉される… 廃村に突入する３人の特殊部隊と、監禁された１人の少女を操作し、脱出を目指します。
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Photogenic Minds : Identity
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
"デッキ構築型３D探索サイコホラー"。 PM0:00からAM0:00までの12時間を支配し、無限ループを抜けて死者の魂を捕獲して下さい。 使えるのはたった1つのカメラだけ。
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Doll's Liminal
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Avoid or defeat dolls that move when you're not looking, take their bodies, and make your way to the 399th dimension. This is a short horror game of fear and strategy, an exploration survival horror.
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In the footage
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Children's Friend.
"In the footage" is a horror exploration game.[/h2]You awaken in an empty room with nothing to do but play a videotape lying on the floor and contemplate the meaning of the footage. That's all you can do at this point.
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国際指定怪異124号 東京廃村
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
特殊部隊全滅ホラー／４人ザッピング操作アクション。全てがリアルタイムに進行する中で、極限のストレスが狂乱のアドレナリンに進化するまで戦いましょう。心折れるまで挑む、１ラウンドが短くリプレイ性の高いハードコアなゲーム性をお楽しみ下さい。
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Days Like A Nightmare
Single-player alternative to The Children's Friend — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Who is infected with the parasite 'Rubyuk'? Place sensors, observe the readings, and build your deductions. Then confront the nightmare – mostly in a physical manner. This is a short, scary game that combines reasoning with mini-action.