Single-player games like Frightence
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Frightence, 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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Scary Game
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frightence.
You open your eyes in a dark, unfamiliar room; each door drags you into a new chamber filled with absurd surprises and dark comedy. Will you manage to escape, or will you continue to star in this black comedy?
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frightence.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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Year Walk
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frightence.
Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. Solve and decipher cryptic puzzles, listen for clues, and learn about mysterious folklore creatures in the built-in encyclopedia as you seek to foresee your future.
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Homesick
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frightence.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frightence.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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The Station
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frightence.
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
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Scanner Sombre
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frightence.
Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.
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Neverending Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frightence.
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
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Solarix
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Solarix is a science-fiction stealth/horror game, set in world that overpowers you with unease, insecurity, and desperation, forcing you to confront your own role in the horrors to come.
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De-Void
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frightence.
De-Void is a first-person adventure game, where the player unravels the mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a remote space colony crew.
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Post War Dreams
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
POST-WAR DREAMS is a 2.5D Story-Rich, Side Scrolling Action Game, set in the wasteland of USA, plagued with constant war.
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Reframed
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
ReFramed is a badass, old-school FPS horror game set in the Solarix universe. Relive the terrors of Solarix in this high-octane, bullet spraying reimagining, only this time, stealth is not an option...
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Blind Souls
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frightence.
Blind Souls is a first-person adventure game where you can see the world through the eyes of a dead painter.
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Caretaker
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Caretaker is a first-person horror experience. You are hungry for truth and maybe this "caretaker" is hungry for something else. Enjoy a ride of psychotic wickedness, through a maze of “criminally insane” mind
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Platform Game Maker
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Platform Game Maker is exciting tool to make your dream Platform Game!
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Death Motel
Single-player alternative to Frightence — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frightence.
Death Motel is a short, intense first-person horror experience about the paranormal events occurring at abandoned Crimson Motel.