Single-player games like Liminal Universe
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Liminal Universe, 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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LIMINAL SHIFT
Single-player alternative to Liminal Universe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal Universe.
Liminal Shift is a unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite. With every step you take, Liminal Shift pushes you deeper into an eerie, unsettling experience like no other.
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Dreamcore
Single-player alternative to Liminal Universe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal Universe.
Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?
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POOLS
Single-player alternative to Liminal Universe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Liminal Universe.
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
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Liminalcore
Single-player alternative to Liminal Universe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal Universe.
Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.
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Liminal City
Single-player alternative to Liminal Universe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal Universe.
Liminal City is a psychological horror and exploration game based on found footage, set in Backrooms Level 11. Walk through the streets of Level 11, filled with soulless buildings, dynamically moving to different levels and searching for a way out. Once you fall in here will you be able to get out?
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Subliminal
Single-player alternative to Liminal Universe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal Universe.
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Liminal Universe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal Universe.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to Liminal Universe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal Universe.
The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.
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The Complex: Found Footage
Single-player alternative to Liminal Universe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal Universe.
Experience the liminal world of the backrooms through a VHS camera, immersing into a mysterious story and wandering the dream-like structures... Might there be something following you?