Single-player games like Chores in the Night
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Chores in the Night, 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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Melbourne: Route 96
Single-player alternative to Chores in the Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.
Part travel journal, part visual novel with a hint of psychological horror, Melbourne: Route 96 is an experimental game about catching a tram in the wrong direction - and a polaroid camera.
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The Nameless City
Single-player alternative to Chores in the Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chores in the Night.
Narrative-driven first person horror adventure inspired by Lovecraft's short novel "The Nameless City". Explore the ruins of a city that some say they are older than humanity itself. While you delve deeper into the ancient buildings, reality and visions blend into an indistinct haze.
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Corpo Connections
Single-player alternative to Chores in the Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.
Corpo Connections is a stylistic, narrative-driven, horror adventure game where you match anomalies and their descriptions. Uncover hidden secrets, solve scrambled messages, and piece together the mysterious workings of your new employer.
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The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Single-player alternative to Chores in the Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.
The Lies We Tell Ourselves is an episodic first person psychological action-adventure game with introspective/horror elements and a focus on subtle storytelling and atmosphere. Explore, solve puzzles, survive and uncover truths buried deep within a castle of lies.
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The Midnight Town Stories: Adam's Forgotten Secrets
Single-player alternative to Chores in the Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.
This is not just a game—it’s a tribute. Adam wakes trapped in his apartment, surrounded by darkness and strange visions. To uncover the mystery and escape, he must find missing diary pages in this thrilling first-person horror/novel/adventure: The Midnight Town Stories: Adam’s Forgotten Secrets.
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Shadow Falls
Single-player alternative to Chores in the Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chores in the Night.
Shadow Falls is a first-person horror game, where you explore a mysterious farmhouse deep in the forest, solving eerie puzzles and uncovering secrets that reveal the thin veil between the world of the living and the dead. Delve deeper and uncover the sinister forces that led you here.
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Not My Son
Single-player alternative to Chores in the Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.
A psychological horror game where a stepfather is left alone with a disturbing child. Explore a quiet house, face growing nightmares, and piece together the truth behind the boy’s behavior.
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Farsight
Single-player alternative to Chores in the Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chores in the Night.
Something is very wrong with your eyes. A routine eye exam pulls you into the house inside the machine. Beware. The figures in the image are closer than they appear.
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Asteroid Five
Single-player alternative to Chores in the Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chores in the Night.
A first person space exploration game where you investigate the inner caves of an asteroid passing by your planet. Dive into the deeps of the asteroid aboard your ship, collecting information and samples of many beautiful minerals and lifeforms while searching for more complex and intelligent beings
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Mountains of Madness
Single-player alternative to Chores in the Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.
A first person horror exploration game set in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Use your tools to navigate the frozen galleries untouched by millennia and unearth evidence of a dreadful truth while you search for a madman whose ill fate lies somewhere beneath these Mountains of Madness