Single-player games like Welcome to Kowloon
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Welcome to Kowloon, 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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Don't Play This
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Welcome to Kowloon.
Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it? A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.
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Psalm 5:9-13
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Welcome to Kowloon.
"Psalm 5:9-13" is a first-person psychological horror game with VHS effect. Be careful and attentive, there is something hiding in these rooms, something is watching from the darkness.
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Lair of Torment
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Welcome to Kowloon.
This is an indie horror game with first-person puzzles. Terror and fear have enveloped the city. The maniac has returned. You sneak into his lair to try and stop him before he goes too far...
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![Gift Collector [ギフトコレクター] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3344150/bff098e67d344d62dbf47a2b982c06d81b3eb5cb/header.jpg?t=1776012747)
Gift Collector [ギフトコレクター]
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Welcome to Kowloon.
Gift Collector [ギフトコレクター] - this is a New Year's horror game from the first person, in the Japanese style and genre of walking simulator. Collect gifts and make the kids happy on New Year's Eve. But don't forget that Midnight is a time of miracles!
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Abandoned Souls
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Welcome to Kowloon.
Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.
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From The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Welcome to Kowloon.
From the darkness is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an old Soviet abandoned apartment.
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9 Childs Street
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Welcome to Kowloon.
This is a first-person indie horror game. In 9 Childs Street you will find the terrifying atmosphere of a recently abandoned house, and its captive inhabitants, through the eyes of a curious little boy in a red cap.
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Locked Up
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Welcome to Kowloon.
The game “Locked Up" is the first project developed in 2020 by the studio EMIKA_GAMES consisting of one person.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Welcome to Kowloon.
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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The Cat Lady
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Welcome to Kowloon.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Welcome to Kowloon.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Welcome to Kowloon.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Welcome to Kowloon.
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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Phasmophobia
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Welcome to Kowloon.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Welcome to Kowloon.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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Psalm 2
Single-player alternative to Welcome to Kowloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Welcome to Kowloon.
First-person psychological horror where the elevator is the only safe place. Each floor is a new reality. Each floor has a new inhabitant. Find it to continue your descent downward.