Single-player games like Captive: You Are My Idol
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Captive: You Are My Idol, 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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Bad Omens: 8th Apartment
Single-player alternative to Captive: You Are My Idol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
You play as a student named Lisa, who has just moved in with her university friend. But instead of a carefree student life, Lisa faces events full of despair and fear when she is left alone in her apartment number 8...
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The Signifier Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Captive: You Are My Idol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.
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Flower in Us
Single-player alternative to Captive: You Are My Idol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
Flower in Us is a short, story-driven mystery adventure that invites players to unravel hidden secrets.
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骸心 Mainbody
Single-player alternative to Captive: You Are My Idol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
A puzzle-based horror game where the player takes on the role of a building manager who manages a haunted building and its "patients". Through the player's different options will raise or lower the pollution value, thus triggering different endings.
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Heavy Rain
Single-player alternative to Captive: You Are My Idol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Captive: You Are My Idol.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
Single-player alternative to Captive: You Are My Idol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Captive: You Are My Idol.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
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Supernormal
Single-player alternative to Captive: You Are My Idol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
Inspired by Allison Road. SUPERNORMAL is a psychological horror game set in a seemingly ordinary apartment harboring dark secrets. Play as Detective Wyatt, tasked with unravelling the disappearance of Masato Sakamoto's daughter. Search for clues and unravel the sinister truth.
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Night Book
Single-player alternative to Captive: You Are My Idol — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.
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Caster's Trap
Single-player alternative to Captive: You Are My Idol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Captive: You Are My Idol.
Enter the vanishing cabin and discover its secrets and magic, while avoiding ghastly entities.