Single-player games like The Fractured Shimmer
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Fractured Shimmer, 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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Gods From The Abyss
Single-player alternative to The Fractured Shimmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An horror beat'em up set in an eldritch-Lovecraftian world.
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Nightmares Mansion: Scary Dreams
Single-player alternative to The Fractured Shimmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
Explore a scary mansion in the first-person adventure horror game. Talk to kidnapped souls, collect grimoires, and discover the hidden secret inside the many doors. Your soul was stolen, and you found yourself in the underworld. Can you escape?
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Workplace Malice
Single-player alternative to The Fractured Shimmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
A survival horror in striking HD-2D, Workplace Malice blends exploration, puzzles, and tense combat with scarce resources and grotesque threats, where every choice shapes Theo’s descent into a workplace nightmare.
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Lens Of Fear
Single-player alternative to The Fractured Shimmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
Realistic, hyper-immersive, intense action-adventure horror game. Developed by PlayableGraph as their debut title. This game combines a portable camera perspective with highly detailed environments and immersive sound design to deliver an authentic horror experience.
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Tomb of Chacal
Single-player alternative to The Fractured Shimmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
Tomb of Chacal is a first-person horror game with stealth and puzzle mechanics. You are an archeologist who has stumbled upon the discovery of a lifetime - an undiscovered tomb hidden deep in the jungle. But the riches here are being guarded by an ancient evil.
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Rumbral
Single-player alternative to The Fractured Shimmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
Rumbral is a dark, puzzle platformer set in a seemingly forgotten world. Find your way in this desolated place while trying to recover your memories and find out who you really are.
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The Ice Cream Shop
Single-player alternative to The Fractured Shimmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
The Evil Presence is an immersive first-person psychological horror game. After moving into a new house, a man experiences supernatural occurrences and discovers the untold history of the residence.
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Pacify
Single-player alternative to The Fractured Shimmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.
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Rendezvous
Single-player alternative to The Fractured Shimmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
Rendezvous is an adventure game set in a futuristic Indonesia. For Setyo to save his sister from sharing his own fate, he must return to the streets of Neo-Surabaya before it's too late. Is it truly possible to redeem the sins of your past?
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Rendezvous: Shadows of the Past
Single-player alternative to The Fractured Shimmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
He can't escape the memories that haunt him, and soon Setyo realizes he must return to Neo-Surabaya to save what's left of his family. Experience the upheaval of Setyo's mundane life in Bay City in this action-adventure prologue to Rendezvous.