Single-player games like The Exit 8
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to The Exit 8, 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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Platform 8
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.
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The Cabin Factory
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.
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Who's at the door?
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
You are trapped in a small house, suffering from psychosis with no memory. Carefully observe your surroundings to distinguish reality from hallucinations, and overcome your illness by taking medication from visitors at the right time.
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![[Chilla's Art] Shinkansen 0 | 新幹線 0号 — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/2793370/header.jpg?t=1712378962)
[Chilla's Art] Shinkansen 0 | 新幹線 0号
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Exit 8.
Shinkansen 0 | 新幹線 0号 is a game set in Japan where players are tasked with finding anomalies in the Shinkansen. (Japanese bullet train)
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Floor 9
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
In Floor 9, you find yourself trapped in a mysterious hotel known as "Hotel Liminal." To escape, you must identify anomalies on each floor. These anomalies can be anywhere - on the ground, in paintings, or even right in front of your eyes.
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Hospital 666
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
Hospital 666 is a 1-4 player horror escape game. Traverse through eerie hospital levels while observing the occurrence of anomalies and choosing the correct elevator. Some abnormal bosses will chase you to death, and you must find the right way to escape them.
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Subliminal
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
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Anomaly Company
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
You and your crew are sent in to assess reality in this 4-player co-op horror game. Memorize the environment. Spot disturbing anomalies. Decide if the timeline is safe. One bad call—and you’re forced to start over.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
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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SOMA
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
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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The Room
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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I'm on Observation Duty
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Exit 8.
As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?
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Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Exit 8.
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 Complex: Expedition
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Exit 8.
When a routine expedition into The Complex goes horribly wrong, you're left alone and lost, wandering the seemingly infinite maze of hallways, otherwise known as the Backrooms. Might there be something following you?
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The Exit 8 VR
Single-player alternative to The Exit 8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Exit 8.
The popular indie game “The Exit 8” is reborn and brought to virtual life as “The Exit 8 VR”! Experience the eerie and thrilling atmosphere of Japan's underground passageways, now with new anomalies!