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Single-player games like The Cost Of Bliss

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Cost Of Bliss, 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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    Backrooms: The Last Observer — Steam game cover

    Backrooms: The Last Observer

    Single-player alternative to The Cost Of Bliss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cost Of Bliss.

    Backrooms: The Last Observer is a cooperative horror game. Descend into something that resists understanding, where perception itself begins to fracture. You are here not to fight, but to witness — and sometimes, witnessing is the worst thing you can do.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation1.19 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Return the Backrooms — Steam game cover

    Return the Backrooms

    Single-player alternative to The Cost Of Bliss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cost Of Bliss.

    Return the Backrooms is a Co-op horror game for 1-4 players where you can have a great time with your friends. Think, Explore, Wander, find the key items and try to escape. but be careful because something is lurking in the dark...

    2022IndieAdventureEarly Access3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Escape to the Italian brainrot — Steam game cover

    Escape to the Italian brainrot

    Single-player alternative to The Cost Of Bliss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cost Of Bliss.

    Escape to the Italian brainrot - это совместная игра в жанре хоррор для 1-2 игроков. Избегай Сахура и других монстров, чтобы попытаться сбежать.

    2025ActionIndieCasual3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Erebus-9 — Steam game cover

    Erebus-9

    Single-player alternative to The Cost Of Bliss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cost Of Bliss.

    Experience living hell in this reimagining of Dante’s Inferno as a cosmic, psychological horror. Venture into the twisted depths of the Erebus-9 and witness a future at the hands of Daedalus Industries in your desperate bid to escape. The only way home is through hell itself.

    2026ActionIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hong Kong Horror Incident: Yik Sin House — Steam game cover

    Hong Kong Horror Incident: Yik Sin House

    Single-player alternative to The Cost Of Bliss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cost Of Bliss.

    The last food delivery order leads you into a residential building you can never leave. You thought it was just an ordinary job, but in the familiar Yik Sin House, you gradually fall into an inescapable nightmare.

    2026IndieAdventure2.39 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Panelak — Steam game cover

    Panelak

    Single-player alternative to The Cost Of Bliss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cost Of Bliss.

    Panelak is an old socialist-era building where strange things happen. Can you make it to the roof and help the helpless man?

    2024IndieAdventure6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    NIGHTSLINK — Steam game cover

    NIGHTSLINK

    Single-player alternative to The Cost Of Bliss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cost Of Bliss.

    You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.

    2021IndieAdventure3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Maid of Sker — Steam game cover

    Maid of Sker

    Single-player alternative to The Cost Of Bliss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cost Of Bliss.

    Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure4.74 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →