Single-player games like Light the Backrooms
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Light the Backrooms, 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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Those Who Remain
Single-player alternative to Light the Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Light the Backrooms.
As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Light the Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Granny Remake
Single-player alternative to Light the Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
Granny Remake is a gripping horror game where you must escape from a sinister house chased by a cunning and relentless Granny. Choose from multiple escape routes: drive away in a car, call the police, or unlock the main door
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Light the Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Light the Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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INVITATION To FEAR
Single-player alternative to Light the Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
『INVITATION To FEAR』 is a survival horror game for 1 to 4 players. After receiving one of the invitations, you will wake up in an unfamiliar place. Before long, you will realize that a terrifying creature is wandering around the building. Don't let "her" find you.
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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Light the Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Light the Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Light the Backrooms.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Hatch
Single-player alternative to Light the Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
"Hatch is a single-player, first-person horror game. You find a hatch in your room and strange things start to happen to you. You are the target of psycho killers. You have to find the truth behind the hatch and escape from the crazy world.
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Reality
Single-player alternative to Light the Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Light the Backrooms.
“Reality” is a first-person action horror game featuring a complex and mysterious story. Use stealth and shooting to overcome a wide variety of formidable enemies. Freely roam the grounds of a large school and uncover a shocking truth connected to a certain female student.