Single-player games like Ells Tales: Chairbound
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Ells Tales: Chairbound, 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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Ells Tales: Egg
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Chairbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Chairbound.
Welcome to the survival horror clicker! Try to save a chicken egg and at the same time your life.
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Haunted Bloodlines
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Chairbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Chairbound.
Every family has secrets. This house knows yours. Haunted Bloodlines is a first-person psychological horror game where the halls shift, the walls breathe, and the mansion has been waiting for you your whole life.
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CHEW YOUR FOOD
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Chairbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
It didn't chew you properly. Escape its stomach by crawling, solving puzzles, listening carefully, and avoiding monsters in this survival horror.
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POOLSIDE VIGIL
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Chairbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Chairbound.
A survival horror game based on a true story, set in procedurally generated liminal spaces, inspired by Backrooms and Poolrooms. Evade the entity, manage your asthma, discover anomalies, and collect memories to solve the mystery of that day; face the bitter consequences of phone addiction!
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Eternal Haunt
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Chairbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Chairbound.
A first-person atmospheric survival horror game set in Old Japan. Explore the claustrophobic labyrinth of Yuki-Onna's home, stay warm, scavenge for items and avoid her ten ghost children. Puzzle solutions and haunting scares shift, making every playthrough unique. Can you endure the relentless cold?
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ANOMALITH
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Chairbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
“ANOMALITH” is a survival third-person shooter set in Japan, steeped in the atmosphere of liminal spaces and Showa-era retro aesthetics. To search for her missing friend, a girl steps into a world writhing with anomalies.
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Office No.41: Prototype Edition
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Chairbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Chairbound.
A prototype version of upcoming horror game "Office No.41". James Loderick goes to closed specialized music school '' Lim Donna '', in which he studied to find and take something that could make his dream come true. But right after he comes to school, he realizes that something is not alright.
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Unstrayed
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Chairbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Chairbound.
Detect anomalies and survive in a space module! Can you break the experiment loop and reveal all the secrets?
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Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Chairbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
AVAILABLE TO PLAY IN NON-VR (KEYBOARD/MOUSE AND CONTROLLER) VR HEADSET NO LONGER REQUIRED.“PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE LOST SOUL” immerses you in a terrifying realistic environment with haunting atmosphere, and the need to survive.
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The Outlast Trials
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Chairbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
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My Last Appointment
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Chairbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Chairbound.
The doctor said today was my last appointment, I'm healthy. Time to go home, what could go wrong?
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Ells Tales: Chicken
Single-player alternative to Ells Tales: Chairbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ells Tales: Chairbound.
Welcome to the survival horror sokoban! Make your way through the maze of puzzles and try to save the chicken's life.