Single-player games like Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest, 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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The Grove
Single-player alternative to Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Scout out an uncanny pine grove for hidden artifacts and discover the fate of the children who went missing from a quiet town in Indiana.
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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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Pyromaniac
Single-player alternative to Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Play as Nikolas, a 20-year-old guy who found himself lost in an abandoned city... or so he thought it was at first. Explore the city, defend yourself from monsters, and find answers to what is really going on.
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Hatch
Single-player alternative to Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
"Hatch is a single-player, first-person horror game. You find a hatch in your room and strange things start to happen to you. You are the target of psycho killers. You have to find the truth behind the hatch and escape from the crazy world.
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The Backrooms Project
Single-player alternative to Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
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Midnight: Submersion - Nightmare Horror Story
Single-player alternative to Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Nightmare Horror Story an adventure game from the first face in a horror genre provides you to take a trip in a huge and dark city full of dummies. You would have a possibility to figure out in a weird atmosphere when alive people are missed and everything that had remained is the dummies.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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Choo-Choo Charles
Single-player alternative to Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.