Single-player games like Poolcore
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Poolcore, 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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Backrooms: The M.E.G.
Single-player alternative to Poolcore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
You are a MEG explorer seeking to uncover every accessible level and sub-level of the uncanny Backrooms. Atmospheric, captivating, oppressive and eerie locations await you - with no entities. Just you and pure liminality.
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All That Time
Single-player alternative to Poolcore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
All That Time is a psychological horror experience where you explore unstable dreamlike memories, solve environmental puzzles, and uncover fragmented lives inside a collapsing liminal system.
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Exit_ComputerLab
Single-player alternative to Poolcore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
Stuck in an infinite loop inside a computer lab. To escape, you need to find the necessary anomalies to break the loop, making it possible to get out of this place. Good luck ;)
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What Happened to Lily?
Single-player alternative to Poolcore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
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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Discolored
Single-player alternative to Poolcore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.
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Fatum Betula
Single-player alternative to Poolcore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.
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Box of Broken Nails
Single-player alternative to Poolcore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Poolcore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poolcore.
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.