Single-player games like Room231
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Room231, 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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Precept
Single-player alternative to Room231 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Room231.
Precept is a first-person psychedelic action horror game with a heavy focus on exploration. Players take control of a night guard whose purpose is to finish his daily task. The player must find way to escape and survive from mysterious company's environment and entities.
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Backrooms: Impending Doom
Single-player alternative to Room231 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Room231.
The research team is gone. You're next. A first-person psychological horror through the Backrooms - explore fractured levels, manage your sanity, and uncover what wiped out your crew.
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Backrooms Multi-Verses
Single-player alternative to Room231 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Room231.
Survival horror with realistic graphics based on Unreal Engine 5. Ten highly detailed levels: liminal world, puzzles and creatures. New levels and content regularly. Experience unbearable horror and find a way to escape from...
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to Room231 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Room231.
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!
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Backrooms: Extractions
Single-player alternative to Room231 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Room231.
Cooperate with up to 6 players to explore, search, and extract lost agents within the Backrooms. Solve puzzles, unlock tools, survive against entities, and progress through increasingly dangerous levels.
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鬼打墙（剧情版）
Single-player alternative to Room231 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Room231.
This is a horror game adapted from the Chinese folklore. Players need to decrypt and collect key items in different stages. Ultimately find a way to escape the foggy forest. While searching for an exit, players will be disturbed by ghosts, players need to avoid the ghosts and evade their attacks.
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Bughouse
Single-player alternative to Room231 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Room231.
Play as Christopher, a kid left home alone with a terrifying STALKER on the loose! Try and survive in this 80's, PS1 inspired, Home Invasion Survival Horror game - OR DIE TRYING!
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Room231 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Room231.
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.