Single-player games like Spectral Scream
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Spectral Scream, 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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Backroom Company
Single-player alternative to Spectral Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spectral Scream.
Backroom Company (aka Async Corporation) is a mysterious group exploring “Noclip.” No one knows who created it. Follow the missing explorers' traces and find strange items deep in the Backrooms.
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PARANOIA PLACE
Single-player alternative to Spectral Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spectral Scream.
PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Together or alone, you will need to solve puzzles, find items and run from the bloodthirsty demonic killer.
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UNDERWARD
Single-player alternative to Spectral Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spectral Scream.
UNDERWARD is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Investigators must carry «TEST-SUBJECT» monsters from a deadly underground abandoned hospital ward.
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The Devourer: Hunted Souls
Single-player alternative to Spectral Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spectral Scream.
Play as a paranormal investigator in our hybrid between first person survival and psychological horror story game. Investigate a haunted forest with up to 5 players CO-OP, try to lift the curse, experience a tragic story and take decisions together. Will you survive or will you lose your soul?
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Backrooms Society
Single-player alternative to Spectral Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spectral Scream.
Backrooms Society is a 1-8 player co-op horror game. Make your way through unique levels of the backrooms while trying to survive and avoid mysterious entities. Scavenge each level for gear and resources, bring it back to The Hub where you can sell valuables and buy/craft new gear.
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Sketchy's Contract
Single-player alternative to Spectral Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spectral Scream.
A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.
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Deadly Broadcast
Single-player alternative to Spectral Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spectral Scream.
Deadly Broadcast is a co-op horror and survival game that can be played with 1-4 players. As a Famous Streamer, you have to stay alive, but at the same time you should stream the paranormal events in the cursed places to gather more donations and more viewers. Don’t die! Don’t cut the Broadcast!
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Emissary Zero
Single-player alternative to Spectral Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spectral Scream.
Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.
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Phasmophobia
Single-player alternative to Spectral Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spectral Scream.
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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Lethal Company
Single-player alternative to Spectral Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spectral Scream.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
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Apes Warfare
Single-player alternative to Spectral Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Spectral Scream.
Fast-paced tactical battles where every move can turn the tide. Outsmart your opponent, adapt on the fly, and turn the battle in seconds. Inspired by classic strategy games, reimagined for faster, more modern play. Play the solo campaign or challenge players worldwide in online multiplayer.