Single-player games like It Mimics
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to It Mimics, 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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Outlast
Single-player alternative to It Mimics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to It Mimics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to It Mimics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to It Mimics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
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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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to It Mimics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to It Mimics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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We Happy Few
Single-player alternative to It Mimics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.
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Pathologic Classic HD
Single-player alternative to It Mimics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped.