Single-player games like The Paddock
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Paddock, 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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Eclipse: Anomaly Research
Single-player alternative to The Paddock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Paddock.
Investigate a haunted swamp as Ivy Summers, a field agent facing reality-breaking anomalies and a deadly creature. Monitor cameras, report the paranormal, survive the hunt, and uncover the swamp’s dark secret before the time loop resets everything.
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Writer. Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to The Paddock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Paddock.
You, the legendary writer, the “King of Horror,” find yourself at the center of a nightmare. A mysterious place, frighteningly familiar, hides sinister secrets. Explore locations, solve riddles, escape from the monster, collect a story that will become a new masterpiece... if you survive.
- 3
Phantom Asylum VR
Single-player alternative to The Paddock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Paddock.
"Phantom Asylum" is a VR horror experience set in an abandoned mental hospital haunted by restless phantoms. Navigate its twisted corridors, where every step could lead you deeper into madness. Can you survive the asylum's secrets, or will you become another ghost trapped within its walls?
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KaraDedeler 1989
Single-player alternative to The Paddock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Paddock.
Journalist Mustafa, who heard the news of the "jinn" raid in one of the remote villages of Turkey in 1988, immediately got in his car to investigate the incident and set off.
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Angels Cove
Single-player alternative to The Paddock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Paddock.
You are called to a secluded house on a remote island to conduct a paranormal investigation. However, you find the island and the house abandoned. Or are they?
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Restaurant at the end of time
Single-player alternative to The Paddock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Paddock.
With the universe on the brink, what better way to spend your last moments than by running a restaurant? Handle chaotic orders, manipulate menus, and gamble with fate. Just watch out for those cursed letters—they might ruin your final feast. Good luck!
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Is Guilty
Single-player alternative to The Paddock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Paddock.
A psychological horror job simulator. Serve coffee at a lonely drive-thru. But when a mysterious email arrives, your shift changes. Watch the cars. Check the plates. Someone in line is hiding a dark secret, and something else is watching you from the dark.
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Tempus Triad
Single-player alternative to The Paddock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Paddock.
In Tempus Triad, dive into an ancient first-person horror scenario where a scientist is thrust into an era where huge predators dominate the land.