Single-player games like Fourth Time Around
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Fourth Time Around, 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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Paratopic
Single-player alternative to Fourth Time Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
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Box of Broken Nails
Single-player alternative to Fourth Time Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.
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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What Happened to Lily?
Single-player alternative to Fourth Time Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.
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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Mouthwashing
Single-player alternative to Fourth Time Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
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Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
Single-player alternative to Fourth Time Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
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The Beginner's Guide
Single-player alternative to Fourth Time Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
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The Elision Effect
Single-player alternative to Fourth Time Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.
The Elision Effect is a short surreal puzzle game. The last person finds themselves in an empty office. The place seems off, like it shouldn’t exist. Not knowing what made everyone abandon these liminal spaces, they look for an exit.
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Fourth Time Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.
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.