Single-player games like LIMINAL SHIFT
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to LIMINAL SHIFT, 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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Dreamcore
Single-player alternative to LIMINAL SHIFT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with LIMINAL SHIFT.
Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?
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Liminalcore
Single-player alternative to LIMINAL SHIFT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with LIMINAL SHIFT.
Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.
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Liminal Universe
Single-player alternative to LIMINAL SHIFT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with LIMINAL SHIFT.
An exploration game that delves into the depths of loneliness. Wander through empty rooms, search for signs of an abandoned world, and listen to the sounds around you. No dangerous chases, just silence and an empty world to explore.
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POOLS
Single-player alternative to LIMINAL SHIFT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with LIMINAL SHIFT.
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
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Liminal City
Single-player alternative to LIMINAL SHIFT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with LIMINAL SHIFT.
Liminal City is a psychological horror and exploration game based on found footage, set in Backrooms Level 11. Walk through the streets of Level 11, filled with soulless buildings, dynamically moving to different levels and searching for a way out. Once you fall in here will you be able to get out?
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to LIMINAL SHIFT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with LIMINAL SHIFT.
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.
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Subliminal
Single-player alternative to LIMINAL SHIFT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with LIMINAL SHIFT.
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
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The Lightkeeper
Single-player alternative to LIMINAL SHIFT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with LIMINAL SHIFT.
Alone on a remote island, you're tasked with keeping a lighthouse. But the horrific events that claimed the lives of previous keepers still whisper through the air. Each day, the line between reality and delusion fades and something in the dark is waiting for the last keeper
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The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to LIMINAL SHIFT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with LIMINAL SHIFT.
You find yourself in a strange world with no idea how you got there. As you explore more, the world gets increasingly convoluted and unstable. You are now in... The Backrooms.