Single-player games like Confabulation
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Confabulation, 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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CAPTURED
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Confabulation.
Trapped in what appears to be an endless hallway in your home, rooms begin to feel unfamiliar. Capture anomalies on camera and stay away from any sinister entities.
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The Exit 8
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Confabulation.
You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".
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DEATHWATCH
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Confabulation.
You've been tasked to observe supposedly haunted locations. Observe and log paranormal events and use the tools at your disposal to gather data on any potential paranormal threats and exterminate them if necessary.
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The Door in the Basement
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Confabulation.
The Door in the Basement is an atmospheric pixelated horror game set in a mysterious subterranean world.
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Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I.
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Confabulation.
I made this first-person single player ghost hunting simulation game, trying to take an authentic approach at investigating ghosts. Use essential paranormal tools to help your community alleviate their concerns and put their minds at ease.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Confabulation.
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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Infliction
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Confabulation.
Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.
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I'm on Observation Duty 5
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Confabulation.
As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?
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Phasmophobia
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Confabulation.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
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I'm on Observation Duty
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Confabulation.
As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?
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The Mortuary Assistant
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Confabulation.
Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
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Buried
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Confabulation.
You wake up buried alive. You are running out of oxygen and you can't remember how you got here. There must be a way out, can you figure it out in time?
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Confabulation: Homestead
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Confabulation.
Horror puzzle game with spot-the-difference elements for survival. Complete interesting puzzles throughout your home to gain access to more areas and unlock more of the story all while using your modified camera to survive the threat that is lurking.
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The Gravedigger
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Confabulation.
You're hired to dig up graves at a local church, looting valuables while demonic activity escalates. You must find and return all the burnt bones to stop the demonic activity. Each night you will dig for valuables to find bones, fend off growing corruption, and survive to solve the mystery.
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The Anomaly Experiment
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Confabulation.
Sentenced to life in prison, you’re offered freedom by joining a trial for a new drug. The experiment is simple: enter the room, observe, and identify what has changed. Complete all tasks, and your sentence is commuted. But, the further you go, the more unsettling your reality becomes.
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FiND ME
Single-player alternative to Confabulation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Confabulation.
Play Find Me, a hide and seek horror game where a young girl is hiding in a house and wants to be found! So is... something else. Search the rooms, pay attention and listen closely. Find her to complete a round. Complete 8 rounds to win. Just make sure you don't find... them.