Single-player games like Madness on Display
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Madness on Display, 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 Curse of Elmwood
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Madness on Display.
You hear quiet whispers from deep inside the house, but no one sees. You begin to feel that you are not alone in this house. Curse of Elmwood is an atmospheric horror where you find yourself trapped in a gloomy 18th century mansion, steeped in mystery and horror.
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Theater of Death
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Madness on Display.
Wander through dark corridors, look into abandoned editing rooms, penetrate dusty archives and uncover the secrets of the movie studio and its employees. Collect puzzle pieces: Study notes, letters, photos, listen to audio recordings to understand what happened on the set of the cursed movie.
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Siberian experiment
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Madness on Display.
Abandoned on the edge of the Siberian taiga, an old military barracks holds something more sinister than just memories of the past. A cold wind whispers through the broken windows, carrying the smell of damp and decay through the empty corridors.
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Through The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Madness on Display.
You as Ethan, a robber who wants to end his criminal past. Suddenly you fall in the Backrooms and now you have to solve the mystery of the liminal rooms to find a way out. But you are not alone here...
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Cauldron Inn
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Madness on Display.
Trying to save yourselfe from something unknown but clearly malevolent, you hide in a mysterious inn. However, your temporary refuge turns out to be a trap, and now you must find a way to escape.
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What Happened to Lily?
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Madness on Display.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
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Lonely Christmas
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Madness on Display.
It’s a story about an 8-year-old boy Kevin who was left alone at home at Christmas. Protect your house from a crazy robber and wait for your parents. Can you handle with it? We’ll find out.
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Quod: Episode 1
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Madness on Display.
"Quod" unfolds in a 1930s Texas prison. The main character must escape and uncover the truth. Brace yourself for eerie occurrences and solve intricate puzzles to unveil the terrifying secrets of this place.
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Degrees
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Degrees - racing game with two modes: single and multiplayer mode for 4 players. With a view from above, you control the victim machine on the map, which is pursued by hunters. Escape them and hide in the bushes, so it will be harder for them to find you.
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Underwater hunting
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Madness on Display.
Underwater hunting: Plunge into the underwater world. Your character-a small fish piranha. The glory of these river predators is truly black - river killers, bloodthirsty robbers, river hyenas, sharks. And she always wants to eat.
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Oil Baron
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Madness on Display.
The game has 7 locations with special tasks. You must fulfill them until the end of the day. It can be used to collect N amount of oil or earn several thousand $. To start playing, you need to choose the complexity of the game. There are 5 difficulty levels (easy-normal-difficult-very complicated-insane).
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Oops!!! Puzzles!!!
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Madness on Display.
We offer you a puzzle game. The meaning of the game – making a mosaic pattern that you want to add up from a variety of fragments of different shapes. The greatest interest in this game will cause thrill-seekers, as it contains scary pictures (horror).
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Laboratory of Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Madness on Display.
You are one of the best fighters of the GIBAR unit, and therefore you were sent to destroy a secret laboratory guarded by armed soldiers. This is a dynamic game with a top view in which you have to survive in a secret laboratory and find a way out of it.
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Base Dune
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness on Display.
Base Dune 3D is a first-person shooter in which you have to go through a large secret laboratory destroying enemies. You can simply move around the game world and shoot the weapons that are given in the game.
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MOLOGA
Single-player alternative to Madness on Display — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Madness on Display.
Description: in 1935, the leadership of the USSR decided to build a new reservoir in one of the regions of the republic. Almost all people left villages and towns, but some refused to leave their homes.