Single-player games like The Horror at Highrook
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Horror at Highrook, 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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Menace from the Deep
Single-player alternative to The Horror at Highrook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Horror at Highrook.
Menace from the Deep is an enthralling Roguelike Deckbuilding card game that unfolds in a dark world, drawing inspiration from Howard Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.Set against the backdrop of 1920s USA, the narrative revolves around a clandestine occult society.
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Cultist Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Horror at Highrook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Horror at Highrook.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
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Roots Devour
Single-player alternative to The Horror at Highrook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Horror at Highrook.
Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.
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Occlude
Single-player alternative to The Horror at Highrook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Horror at Highrook.
Occlude is a ritual disguised as Solitaire; a cosmic-horror card game where the rules are obscured and reality is at stake. Play through cryptic challenges to reveal forbidden lore in this singleplayer narrative puzzle game for the terminally curious. Don’t worry; you can always start over.
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Strange Antiquities
Single-player alternative to The Horror at Highrook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Horror at Highrook.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to The Horror at Highrook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Horror at Highrook.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Strange Horticulture
Single-player alternative to The Horror at Highrook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Horror at Highrook.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
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SUNLESS SEA
Single-player alternative to The Horror at Highrook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Horror at Highrook.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
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BOOK OF HOURS
Single-player alternative to The Horror at Highrook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Horror at Highrook.
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
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Into the Pit
Single-player alternative to The Horror at Highrook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Horror at Highrook.
A fast-paced retro-FPS roguelite! As a member of a family of lore-hunting mystics you are summoned to a cursed village, drawn by rumors of a demonic portal. Dark magics have overwhelmed the village, It's up to you to rescue the survivors, grow your powers, and journey forth INTO THE PIT.