Single-player games like Unlock
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Unlock, 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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The Backrooms Recorded
Single-player alternative to Unlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Unlock.
Navigate a nightmarish labyrinth, avoid eerie entities, and uncover dark secrets in this liminality based horror game. Explore realistic levels, unravel secrets, and figure out life or death puzzles. Will you escape the madness? Brought to you by a solo 13 year old dev.
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Silent Anomalies
Single-player alternative to Unlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Unlock.
Silent Anomalies is an intense surveillance simulator. You are a monitoring operator whose job is to find anomalies. Switch cameras, analyze changes, and detect things that look strange or out of place.
- 3
Recontact London: Cyber Puzzle
Single-player alternative to Unlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Unlock.
Cinema-based detective puzzle game based on real images and open world. Beyond the interactive cinema, it is a multi-layered detective adventure where you can solve the secrets with your detective skills and deepen the investigation by doing research.
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Labyrinthine
Single-player alternative to Unlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Unlock.
A co-op horror game like no other... Play with 1-8 players online as you solve puzzles, collect items and run from the horrors that lie within. Follow in the footsteps of Joan in the story mode or tackle procedurally generated maps that scale with your level and bring a fresh experience each game..
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HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator
Single-player alternative to Unlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Unlock.
Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in Hackhub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.
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Arctic Anxiety
Single-player alternative to Unlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Unlock.
Survival simulator in extreme conditions. The game takes place in the Arctic ocean. The pilot of a cargo plane makes a hard landing on the water. To survive, the player will have to search for a cargo washed up on the shore.
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Project DeepWeb
Single-player alternative to Unlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Unlock.
This is a deep web exploration simulator. Discover hundreds of websites and files around the Web to get to the Silent House and save your friend. Find out creepy stories from the Web and meet its inhabitants. It's showtime!
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Hazing - Night Shift
Single-player alternative to Unlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Unlock.
A young police officer arrives at a country house after a disturbing call... This VHS tape captures the horrors that happened to him.
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ClockOut
Single-player alternative to Unlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Unlock.
It's time to leave the office. No overtime work. Let's hurry home.
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ViruStream
Single-player alternative to Unlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Unlock.
One day, the game distribution site “ViruStream” was infected by a virus caused by hackers! Solve the riddles that the hacker gives you and remove the virus! Inspired by a certain experiential escape game, this is a puzzle-solving game with a time limit of 60 minutes!