Single-player games like The Ice Cream Shop
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Ice Cream Shop, 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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Inferno Pathways
Single-player alternative to The Ice Cream Shop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ice Cream Shop.
Descend into the abandoned metro in Inferno Pathways, a first-person psychological horror game. Navigate dark tunnels, solve puzzles, and uncover sinister secrets. Confront your deepest fears and piece together the haunting story of Mike Collins. Can you escape the darkness?
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Single-player alternative to The Ice Cream Shop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ice Cream Shop.
A first-person psychological horror game about grief, obsession, and love. Sleep to enter dreams, take control of them, and descend into deeper layers where time moves slower. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the mystery of a grieving father who created a world frozen in time.
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Rehaunted
Single-player alternative to The Ice Cream Shop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Ice Cream Shop.
Enter a house where every clue feels wrong. Investigate a brutal crime scene, uncover hidden evidence, and use your detective tools to piece together a disturbing truth buried beneath the silence.
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The Call Button
Single-player alternative to The Ice Cream Shop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ice Cream Shop.
A short horror observation thriller. Could you tell what's real and what isn't? You stole intel from your company. Now you wake up in a hospital every day with two choices: take your medication if something looks wrong, or hit the call button if you're sure the room is safe.
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Mayfly
Single-player alternative to The Ice Cream Shop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ice Cream Shop.
Mayfly is an eerie story-based quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Upon waking alone to find your husband is missing you find yourself weaving through a shifting, unstable reality as you search your confined surroundings in this focussed narrative exploration game.
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Clink
Single-player alternative to The Ice Cream Shop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ice Cream Shop.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
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Box of Broken Nails
Single-player alternative to The Ice Cream Shop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ice Cream Shop.
First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
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Witch's Doll
Single-player alternative to The Ice Cream Shop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ice Cream Shop.
Witch's Doll is a first-person psychological horror game with realistic graphics. Beware, something is lurking in the dark. Get ready for intense jumpscares.
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Deadly Rain
Single-player alternative to The Ice Cream Shop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ice Cream Shop.
Deadly Rain is a survival horror FPS game that puts you in a terrifying fight for survival against hordes of scary mutants in a rainy, abandoned village. Find and manage resources to stay alive in the worst and most unexpected situations.
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Banshee Hunt
Single-player alternative to The Ice Cream Shop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ice Cream Shop.
Banshee Hunt is a Banshee hunting horror game, a supernatural spirit from Irish folklore, on an island isolated from the world. Track the creature by listening to its distant cries and loud screams, prepare your weapon and kill it, before it reaches you.
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Chupacabra Hunt
Single-player alternative to The Ice Cream Shop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ice Cream Shop.
Chupacabra Hunt is a Chupacabra hunting horror game, a vampiric creature that is feeding on the blood of animals in the region. Track the creature by following its footprints and listening to its screams, prepare your weapon and kill it.
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The Sweet Spot
Single-player alternative to The Ice Cream Shop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ice Cream Shop.
The Sweet Spot is a cozy horror game where you work the last shift at an 80s ice cream shop. Make ice cream, serve customers and watch out for strange things.