Single-player games like The Path
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Path, 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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The Alley
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Path.
A first-person psychological horror game. Explore a maze-like alleyway, using your camera to distinguish between supernatural "Ghost Traces" and deceptive "Ghost Feints" while escaping the relentless pursuit of a vengeful ghost.
- 2
Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Path.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
- 3
Paratopic
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Path.
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
- 4
The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Path.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
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Shining Hotel: Lost in Nowhere
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Path.
You woke up in an unfamiliar room, enshrouded in darkness. You listen to the silence that's been broken only by the quiet static noise coming from the TV speakers. You try to remember how did you get here. But your memories are gone.
- 6
I Did Not Buy This Ticket
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Path.
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
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The Utility Room
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Path.
This VR Journey takes you to the 'behind the scenes' of the Universe. Beyond a door lies a barren landscape inhabited by strange rocky heads. Here, the maintenance and heavy lifting required keeps existence stable and temporal. You are a tourist. Don't do anything foolish.
- 8
Visage
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Path.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Path.
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 Graveyard
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Path.
The Graveyard is a very short computer game. You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It's more like an explorable painting than an actual game. An experiment with poetry and storytelling but without words.
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Bientôt l'été
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Path.
Bientôt l’été is a videogame for two players. Two players who pretend to be lovers. They pretend to be lovers separated from each other by lightyears of deep space. They have lonely walks along the shore of a simulated ocean, thinking wistful thoughts of each other. Thoughts from ancient Earth literature by Marguerite Duras.
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Sunset
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Path.
It's 1972 and a military coup has rocked Anchuria. You, Angela Burnes, are trapped in the metropolitan capital of San Bavón. Your paradise has turned into a warzone. You take up a job as a housekeeper. Every week, an hour before sunset, you clean the swanky bachelor pad of the wealthy Gabriel Ortega.
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Fatale
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Path.
"Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me.
- 14
Luxuria Superbia
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Path.
A simple game of touch, pleasure and joy.Luxuria Superbia is a colorful, musical journey made to fill you with joy. Exciting designs explode from your touch as you glide through playful stylized flowers. It’s all about the experience and the interaction.There’s twelve flower-like tunnels and a garden with a temple.
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Triennale Game Collection
Single-player alternative to The Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Path.
The Triennale Game Collection is a free virtual exhibition of video games created for the 21st International Exhibition of Triennale Milano by five of the world’s most renowned independent game designers, showcasing these artists’ experimental approach to interactivity.