Single-player games like Dr. Gloom’s Lab™
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dr. Gloom’s Lab™, 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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Call from the darkness
Single-player alternative to Dr. Gloom’s Lab™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Enter this first-person shooter with dark and realistic scenarios, use your shooting skills to kill all the enemies and survive. Explore the scenario and collect all the resources you can because you will need them to get out alive.
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Nulla Via
Single-player alternative to Dr. Gloom’s Lab™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dr. Gloom’s Lab™.
NULLA VIA is a WW2 psychological horror set in a preserved, abandoned war town. Explore silent ruins, bunkers, and mass graves where life was erased. Shadows cannot be killed by bullets alone. Use your camera, your weapons, and your sanity to survive. This town was never rebuilt for a reason.
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The Lifeline
Single-player alternative to Dr. Gloom’s Lab™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dr. Gloom’s Lab™.
To escape this terrifying hospital, you must leave your fears behind. Can you do it? Explore, face zombies, use weapons, avoid traps, and react fast to survive.
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DEADFALL
Single-player alternative to Dr. Gloom’s Lab™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fight alone or with friends in a brutal horror wave-survival experience. Survive against endless waves of terrifying infected in this high-difficulty horror shooter. Play solo or with friends, unlock devastating weapons, discover secrets, and see how long you can endure the nightmare.
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Beyond Hanwell
Single-player alternative to Dr. Gloom’s Lab™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dr. Gloom’s Lab™.
Explore Westminster, London on a journey to the ruins of Hanwell. Fight with whatever you can find or use the environment to defend yourself against an ever increasing scourge of Anomalies.
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Deathbloom: Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to Dr. Gloom’s Lab™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dr. Gloom’s Lab™.
Inspired by classic survival horror. Bachman Manor sprawls into a maze of corridors, bedrooms, foyers, and more. Filled with puzzles, traps, and hidden passageways that explore the secrets of its dark history and occupants.
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Eternal Evil
Single-player alternative to Dr. Gloom’s Lab™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dr. Gloom’s Lab™.
A small town is being taken over by ghouls. Solve puzzles, carefully read notes and use various weapons against horrific and evolving enemies to uncover what is behind this gruesome event. Eternal Evil is an old-school survival-horror game.
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Apartment No 129
Single-player alternative to Dr. Gloom’s Lab™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dr. Gloom’s Lab™.
Emir, who has an interest in mysterious events, steps alone into the abandoned apartment known as "Apartment No 129" to trace the trail of a paranormal event that occurred in 2009 and shook the country. However, he will find himself in an unexpected confrontation within this horror apartment.