Single-player games like Need For Scream
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Need For Scream, 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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Layers of Fear (2016)
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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Rise of Insanity
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.
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Luto
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
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Fuck You Witch
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
Your best friend has confessed her love for you... but the problems don't stop there. You've started to hallucinate. All this interferes with sleeping and eating, and in general disrupts your ideal lifestyle. Yell obscenities at the witch, immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the Qazaq steppes
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
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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Master Reboot
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
Imagine a world where death is no longer final, where precious memories are saved to enjoy forever, where your soul is immortal. Master Reboot is a haunting first-person sci-fi adventure.
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10:59
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
You wake up with a bad hangover and don’t recognize your home. You see a boy and you understand... that something is wrong with him. Someone's presence causes anxiety, fear and is about to plunge you into the realm of horror. But you don’t lose hope and try to get out of this nightmare.
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Clink
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
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SNAP SNAP
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
Having collected information about the “unusual corpse” for your journalistic investigation, you return home from the morgue. Something is wrong... The house has changed and there is a creature wandering in it that is afraid of the camera flash. Solve puzzles to get out of the house and survive.
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QR DEAD
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
Your phone is the key to solving the mystery. Scan QR codes, they hold hidden clues. Find herbs for the infusion to save your grandfather. But be careful. A fog has engulfed the village, and a monster with a crossbow for a hand roams within. You are only safe at the altar. Why is it chasing you?
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VIDeoPHOBIA
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
You are in a room without windows or doors. The TV dimly illuminates the room. What is this, a box? How to open it? After solving the riddle, you find the TV remote control. Click... a door appeared. You step into the darkness and hear laughter... turn around and find out what's behind the screen.
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Writer. Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
You, the legendary writer, the “King of Horror,” find yourself at the center of a nightmare. A mysterious place, frighteningly familiar, hides sinister secrets. Explore locations, solve riddles, escape from the monster, collect a story that will become a new masterpiece... if you survive.