Single-player games like Home Safety Hotline
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Home Safety Hotline, 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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Life Eater
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.
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Forbidden Solitaire
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Stories Untold
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
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Grunn
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
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Creepy Shift: House For Sale
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Handyman needed - ASAP! The investor’s coming in the morning, and the house still isn’t ready! Take on an extra shift where horror meets simulation. Tackle the chaos, uncover dark secrets, and finish everything before dawn.
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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
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Not Tonight
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.
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That's not my Neighbor
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
It's 1955, and for unknown reasons, doppelgangers are more common than usual. Therefore, the Department of Doppelganger Detection (D.D.D.) has taken action. You are the doorman of an apartment complex, and you must decide whether to let in those who claim to be your neighbors.
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SCP Foundation: ITTLG - Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Home Safety Hotline.
SCP Foundation: ITTLG Chapter 1 is a visual novel about, SCP-105 & SCP-105-B and her friendship with you. Trying to escape the foundation, in the end. They find out the dark truth behind their existence.
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Buddy Simulator 1984
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!
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Duskers
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
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Desktop Explorer
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
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Amanda the Adventurer
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
Join Amanda and her pal Wooly on a series of adventures as they explore and learn about our wonderful world! With several NEW play-along, laugh-along, learn-along episodes there's always fun to be had! Just make sure to do everything Amanda says or she might get angry.
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Welcome to the Game
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Welcome to the Game is a creepy horror/puzzle game that takes you into the world of the Deep Web. Explore the Deep Web with the sole purpose of trying to find a Red Room, an online service / website that allows you to see and participate in interactive torture and murder.
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NiGHT SIGNAL
Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
NiGHT SIGNAL is a short first-person horror experience that sees you breaking in a new television set, only to find that it picks up strange signals after dark. Hand crafted from flesh and clay.