Single-player games like Subliminal
Below are 13 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
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LIMINAL SHIFT
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
Liminal Shift is a unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite. With every step you take, Liminal Shift pushes you deeper into an eerie, unsettling experience like no other.
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Dreamcore
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?
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Liminalcore
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.
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POOLS
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Subliminal.
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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No, I'm not a Human
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Subliminal.
WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
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The Exit 8
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".
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Hollow Cocoon
Single-player alternative to Subliminal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Subliminal.
"Trapped in a cocoon, the silkworm weaves her final dream." Hollow Cocoon is a first-person horror adventure game set in 1980s Japan. Immerse yourself in meticulously recreated environments as you venture into the depths of unspeakable horrors that await you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.