Single-player games like The Lacerator
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Lacerator, 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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Carnival Massacre
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
Drawing heavily from classic survival horror tropes, Carnival Massacre takes players on a haunting quest in a cursed theme park. Explore your surroundings, manage your messy inventory, solve puzzles and kill the four ringleaders of the park!
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Flesh Made Fear
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.
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Silver Pines
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.
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Skinfreak
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lacerator.
The city’s most disturbing serial killer is at large and has his sights set on Belle. Can she escape this maniac’s fleshy, rotting clutches? Or will she lose her skin to this sicko’s collection?
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Endoparasitic 2
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must survive. Drag yourself through the hallways of an infested arcship, fight off twisted eldritch creatures, craft vaccines and ammunition, and escape to civilization.
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Trash Horror Collection
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lacerator.
Welcome to a true 80's trash horror experience. This collection has 10 short horror games that you can freely choose which one you want to play.
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Tower of Mask
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
Tower of Mask is a thrilling survival horror in the spirit of the 80's dungeon crawlers. The most claustrophobic dungeon in modern times is yours to venture through alone. Hero, face the ancient tower where eerie masked humans prowl.
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Tormenture
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
Tormenture is a psychological horror game where you play as a child trapped in a cursed 8-bit game with a dark secret. To survive, you must find four relics and solve reality-blurring puzzles. But beware—some creatures may escape the game and haunt you in the real world. A game within a game.
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Manhunt
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Lacerator.
You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lacerator.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lacerator.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Resident Evil 3
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Lacerator.
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.
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Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999)
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lacerator.
Join Jill Valentine, the survivor of the notorious disaster, as her nightmare continues. After resigning from S.T.A.R.S. Jill now prepares to head out of Raccoon City… but caught in a town crawling with zombies, more than ever she must rely on brute force and cunning to find a way to escape alive.
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Death Elevator
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
A short and minimalist roguelike where every hit is lethal but time slows down whenever you are in danger. Reach the top floor or die trying!
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Living Dead Outbreak
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lacerator.
Battle your way through the dense zombie crowds as you struggle to survive! Inspired by classic zombie movies and FPS games from the 90s, the overwhelming combat will keep you on your toes!
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CONCRETE BURIAL
Single-player alternative to The Lacerator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
Equipped only with a weapon that consumes your own blood, explore an ancient brutalist catacomb. Beware the Eyes of The Whispering Crypt. Find the 4 artifacts of desire. Confront God.