Single-player games like Imaginary Friend Asylum
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Imaginary Friend Asylum, 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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Ovation
Single-player alternative to Imaginary Friend Asylum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Imaginary Friend Asylum.
Once a celebrated opera singer, Rachel returns to the stage where she lost her son. As she works through the night, routine tasks unravel into hallucinations and memories as a restless presence awakens.
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DEATH BURGER
Single-player alternative to Imaginary Friend Asylum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Imaginary Friend Asylum.
A cheerful man excitedly arrives at a popular burger shop in town. However, it turns out to be a terrifying facility controlled by the evil Emperor "Pattypatine"! Ravenous, rampaging burgers are everywhere... Fight back with the shining fries, the "Potato Saber"!
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Night Grove
Single-player alternative to Imaginary Friend Asylum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Imaginary Friend Asylum.
This is a first-person indie horror game. A young deliveryman took an unusual order that led him to Night Grove. This place has a dubious reputation among the townspeople, because for many years it has been sent to live with people that society has long since abandoned.
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Victim Complex: Part 1
Single-player alternative to Imaginary Friend Asylum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Imaginary Friend Asylum.
Use your wits and iconic ghost hunting equipment to uncover the mystery of what happened to the residents of an abandoned apartment complex in this narrative-driven horror experience.
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Hermit Computer
Single-player alternative to Imaginary Friend Asylum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Imaginary Friend Asylum.
Hermit Computer is a horror-puzzle game set in 2001. Deep within the Hermit Kingdom, you play as an outsider tasked with extracting critical intelligence using a secretive state-controlled computer operating system.
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SARA
Single-player alternative to Imaginary Friend Asylum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Imaginary Friend Asylum.
A psychological horror game where you complete night shift tasks, investigate hidden clues, and survive increasingly disturbing paranormal encounters across five terrifying nights.
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A Plague Tale: Requiem
Single-player alternative to Imaginary Friend Asylum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Imaginary Friend Asylum.
Embark on a heartrending journey into a brutal, breathtaking world, and discover the cost of saving those you love in a desperate struggle for survival. Strike from the shadows or unleash hell with a variety of weapons, tools and unearthly powers.
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INPUT6
Single-player alternative to Imaginary Friend Asylum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Imaginary Friend Asylum.
INPUT6 is a short, fast-paced, first-person horror game. Search through the abandoned robot factory avoiding malfunctioning robot by instantly switching between playing in separate sections of the facility. Figure out what led to the company's collapse. Be quick! You don’t have much time.
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The Friends We Left Behind
Single-player alternative to Imaginary Friend Asylum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Imaginary Friend Asylum.
The Friends We Left Behind is a point & click horror game where you must survive different "escape room" situations to win. Play 5 separate bone-chilling levels with unique puzzles featuring different Imaginary Friends.
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Mint's Hints
Single-player alternative to Imaginary Friend Asylum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Imaginary Friend Asylum.
Mint’s Hints is a cancelled children’s show, and you’ve found yourself on the old set. Find paw-shaped Hints with special ghost-detecting Flashbrights, and discover the secret behind the show’s closure with your Happy-Go-Lucky Notebook, but be careful, the stars of the show are after you.