Single-player games like Ells Tales: Egg
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Ells Tales: Egg, 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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Ells Tales: Chairbound
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Egg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Egg.
You wake up tied to an office chair in the middle of an empty room. A mysterious device with a 10-minute timer is attached to you. Explore the office floors, try not to tip over, and find a way to escape!
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Hand Simulator: Horror
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Egg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Egg.
Fear clouds the mind. Fear paralyzes the body. If your hands are shaking with fear, you will remain in this hell forever.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Egg — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Five Nights at Freddy's
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Egg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Egg.
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Egg — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Egg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Egg.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Egg — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
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Amnesia: Rebirth
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Egg — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.
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My Last Appointment
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Egg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Egg.
The doctor said today was my last appointment, I'm healthy. Time to go home, what could go wrong?
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Ells Tales: Chicken
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Egg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Egg.
Welcome to the survival horror sokoban! Make your way through the maze of puzzles and try to save the chicken's life.