Single-player games like Subliminal
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Subliminal, 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
- 1
Unable to Exit 8
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
You receive an invitation on a "special" dating app, get excited and then get involved in an endless cycle of couples' hotels. You have to watch carefully for any unusual information. Can you solve these puzzles?
- 2
The Jurassic Labyrinth
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Subliminal.
A psychological horror puzzle game set in a living labyrinth that adapts to your choices. Solve shifting mechanisms, navigate ever-changing corridors, and evade a relentless presence that learns your behavior as you try to escape.
- 3
MIRROR MIRROR
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
MIRROR MIRROR is a first-person psychological horror game. You repeatedly find yourself in a house where you find presence of unknown entities. Go through unreal experiences in the house and uncover the secrets of your fractured mind. Experience the tension and fear in the repeating space.
- 4
The Alley
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
A first-person psychological horror game. Explore a maze-like alleyway, using your camera to distinguish between supernatural "Ghost Traces" and deceptive "Ghost Feints" while escaping the relentless pursuit of a vengeful ghost.
- 5
It's Always Happy at Chubby's
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
Welcome to the night shift at Chubby’s, a 24/7 burger joint in the 90s. It's in the middle of nowhere, so you'll be mostly entirely alone. Just keep the store clean and occasionally serve the drive-thru counter. But whatever you do... always follow the rules.
- 6
The Exit of Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
The Exit of Nightmare is a psychological horror game with collection and puzzle elements. You're trapped in nightmare world and your goal is to find your way back to reality.
- 7
Backrooms: Lost Tape
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
You work in the cinema as an usher and accidentally fell into the Backrooms, now being trapped, needing to unravel the mysteries of the yellow rooms in order to get out of this place, but be careful, there are entities that will be in your way.
- 8
Panelak
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
Panelak is an old socialist-era building where strange things happen. Can you make it to the roof and help the helpless man?
- 9
Outlast
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
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.
- 10
Poppy Playtime
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
- 11
Superliminal
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Subliminal.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
- 12
The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
You find yourself in a strange world with no idea how you got there. As you explore more, the world gets increasingly convoluted and unstable. You are now in... The Backrooms.
- 13
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
- 14
The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
The Backrooms is a first person survival horror game set in one of the most terrifying environments of the human psyche. Explore an ever evolving nightmare while running from terrifying creatures to stay alive.