Single-player games like The Transference
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Transference, 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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Chamber's Reunion
Single-player alternative to The Transference — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Transference.
Following a message from an old friend, you visit abandoned estate. Suddenly, you're knocked out. As you wake up, your only job is to escape as quickly as possible..
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Backrooms Multi-Verses
Single-player alternative to The Transference — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Transference.
Survival horror with realistic graphics based on Unreal Engine 5. Ten highly detailed levels: liminal world, puzzles and creatures. New levels and content regularly. Experience unbearable horror and find a way to escape from...
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Deep Line
Single-player alternative to The Transference — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Transference.
Deep beneath the abandoned subway, an unknown threat awaits. Collect gold and find a way out.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to The Transference — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Transference.
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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to The Transference — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Transference.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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HORROR TALES: The Wine
Single-player alternative to The Transference — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Transference.
Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to The Transference — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Transference.
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.
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CRUELTY
Single-player alternative to The Transference — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Transference.
"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.