Single-player games like Back
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Back, 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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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Heart of the Forest
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
An ill-fated hiking trip spirals into a chilling fight for survival in this interactive psychological horror movie, inspired by centuries-old tales of vengeful spirits from Germany’s Black Forest.
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Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
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Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Back.
Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol is a first-person survival horror game inspired by Junji Ito's psychological horror and eerie aesthetics. This work centers on the twisted potential of human nature and fear of the unknown, taking you on a journey of survival where memory and mystery intertwine.
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The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Back.
Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…
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Vanity Fair: The Pursuit
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back.
Players follow Lu Yuan through important stages of his life and experience his growth trajectory from youth to maturity. It will take you to relive those decisions that you have never tried to make in reality, and feel the different life brought about by each choice.
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Road to Empress I
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.
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Director Simulator
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Back.
You, who lack talent, always have strange dreams. Until one day, all kinds of beautiful women from dreams entered your life one by one. You will experience an unprecedented legendary journey from a first person perspective.
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Until Dawn™
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Back.
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
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Erica
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Back.
Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.
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美女，请别影响我成仙
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
You, Lin Fan, the only male cultivator of the Crane Illusion Sect, were supposed to be the chosen son of the cultivation world, until you realized that the real "crossing tribulation" was not thunder punishment, but a thousand tribulation with the sect's young ladies and sisters.
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女神的贴身男仆
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back.
"Service of Five Graces" is a romance FMV. You play as Lin Ye. One day, you wake up to find you've become the personal butler to the five ladies!? To repay your father's debts, you have no choice but to step into this mansion, beginning a strange life of being "ordered around" by five young women.
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天平游戏1:抉择
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
《Inner Scales 1:Choice》is a first-person FMV. Set in a sealed cage. It pushes survival, humanity, emotion and moral dilemmas to the extreme. You will face surveillance, cages, and the fates of eight trapped women—every choice you make decides life and death for others and yourself.
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Pact Between Us
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back.
"Pact between us" is a FMV. After the loss parents, you and your younger sister become siblings who only have each other. You must tenderly care for her daily life.What kind of woman will your sister grow into? Every arrangement you implement during her upbringing carries profound weight.
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Survivor's Notes
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
"Survivor's Notes" is an FMV . Players control two protagonists, using choices and QTEs to unlock different branches and endings. Follow a girl who foresees disaster and acolonel from the future as their stories reveal the outbreak's origins. Trust,rescue, or walk away. Survival is onlyone of them.
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TryAndLove
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back.
A man's life is a life of pursuing love. The childish love of childhood sweethearts? White Moonlight's pure love? Ignorant of the astringent love of forbidden fruit? Blind love like a moth flying into a flame? True love that transcends the world? Act Ren Xing and make a willful choice.
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Back：Fade
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
《Back：Fade》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy ！！！！ The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
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欢迎来到林葬屋
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
Mourningwood Lodge is a full-motion video (FMV) live-action mystery horror game. As the first installment in the Funeral Houseseries, players will assume different roles across various game modes to participate in a suspenseful horror journey blending conspiracy and fantasy.
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林葬屋前传：冥声
Single-player alternative to Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
"Mourningwood Lodge2:Hidden Voice" is a Chinese folk horror FMV mystery about a forbidden ghost marriage, a cursed nursery rhyme, and a string of fear-stricken deaths. Investigate a haunted mansion, uncover buried sins, and face multiple endings.