Single-player games like While Sleeping
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to While Sleeping, 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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Deadstep
Single-player alternative to While Sleeping — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
You have a nightmare of being chased by a ghost for five days. You can't find a ghost with your eyes. You should avoid the ghost and find items needed for the exorcism. Pay attention to the traces of footprints, footsteps left by the ghost. Find the items and survive before the ghost finds you!
- 2
Hide Alone
Single-player alternative to While Sleeping — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
You try to play dangerous hide and seek with a doll at home alone. Started out of curiosity, this hide-and-seek game has rules that must be followed or your life will be at risk. Never get caught by them, stay calm and survive to the end.
- 3
In The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to While Sleeping — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."
- 4
CRUELTY
Single-player alternative to While Sleeping — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
"CRUELTY" is a Japanese-made splatter horror. You were in an accident and lost consciousness. The moment you wake up, you find yourself in a nightmare world, one that is not of this Earth. In an abattoir ruled by madness, horrific scenes unfold, and inescapable terror awaits you.
- 5
Visage
Single-player alternative to While Sleeping — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to While Sleeping — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
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.
- 7
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to While Sleeping — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
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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Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to While Sleeping — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.
- 9
PC Cafe Simulator
Single-player alternative to While Sleeping — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with While Sleeping.
Run your own Korean PC cafe! From customer service to cooking and store management — experience life as a PC cafe owner. Start small, hire staff, expand your store, and deal with troublesome customers yourself! Play solo or co-op with up to 8 players.