Single-player games like School Curse
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to School Curse, 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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A Short Death
Single-player alternative to School Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with School Curse.
A short 3D Platformer and Collectathon situated in Hell. Play as a humble cat (with wings!) and get to the top of the mysterious tower!
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Deadlight Maze
Single-player alternative to School Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with School Curse.
Deadlight Maze is a tense horror maze game where players must survive deadly traps and escape relentless zombies using strategy, flashlight colors, and quick decision-making. Navigate dangerous mazes, freeze zombies with matching light colors, and survive the darkness before the maze consumes you.
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Departure of Darkness
Single-player alternative to School Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with School Curse.
Pure determination to save her brother keeps Emma in this parasite-infected airport. Scavenge, unravel, and slaughter your way through Departure of Darkness, a 90s survival-horror throwback. Tread lightly when rescuing the survivors or you’ll succumb to the hive mind…
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Purrate Adventure: Volcano Isle
Single-player alternative to School Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with School Curse.
Explore, Platform & Plunder a large Volcanic Isle in search of Coins, Gems, Crowns, and the 5 hidden talismans!
- 5
Plastomorphosis
Single-player alternative to School Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with School Curse.
Evacuated from their hometown due to dangerous bursts of dark energy, the ordinary citizen is trying to overcome and survive a series of events in a new reality where living as a human is no longer possible as it once was. 3rd-person horror with fixed camera angles and retro-styled graphics.
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Mini Reaper
Single-player alternative to School Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The file for a lost and unfinished platformer from 1999 about collecting souls for the vacationing Grim Reaper has resurfaced online.
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Dead Beacon
Single-player alternative to School Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with School Curse.
Dead Beacon is a first-person survival horror inspired by late 1990s games and taking place in the Beacon manor, a location crawling with zombies and creatures governed by a malevolent will. Survive using the given array of weapons and escape the island.
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Holstin
Single-player alternative to School Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A psychological survival horror game set in an eerie, isolated 90’s Polish town consumed by an ominous presence. You’ve come looking for answers, but everyone seems possessed by something foul. Explore the festering town, interrogate locals and fight ungodly manifestations to get to the truth.