Single-player games like POOLS
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to POOLS, 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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Dreamcore
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?
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Liminalcore
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.
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LIMINAL SHIFT
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
Liminal Shift is a unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite. With every step you take, Liminal Shift pushes you deeper into an eerie, unsettling experience like no other.
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The Exit 8
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".
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Subliminal
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
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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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
You are the exploration team from company Async, you arrive to reported anomaly place and searching for anomalies, but what would you find? Prepare yourself for a gripping and heart-pounding adventure in EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS, where every step could be your last.
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Amygdala
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
Welcome to Amygdala, seeker of nightmares. In the presence of the Absolute Judge, you are assigned a task that only you can accomplish. Immerse yourself in this place made of emotions. Discover unique creatures called 'lords of nightmares' and uncover the beauties of horror in this unique adventure.
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The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
You find yourself in a strange world with no idea how you got there. As you explore more, the world gets increasingly convoluted and unstable. You are now in... The Backrooms.
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Lucid Blocks
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.
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Yume Nikki
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
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NaissanceE
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.
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Fatum Betula
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.
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Interior Worlds
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
Snap your own homemade liminal space photos using a mysterious SLR camera as you explore a variety of empty, strange, and familiar spaces.
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Proteus
Single-player alternative to POOLS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with POOLS.
Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.