Single-player games like Need For Scream
Below are 10 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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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?
- 2
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.
- 3
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?
- 4
Paranormal Torment
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
Paranormal Torment is a psychological horror game in the spirit of P.T., where you're trapped in a loop of memory and guilt, forced to relive a tragedy over and over again. He's still waiting for you to come back...
- 5
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.
- 6
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
- 7
Hazing - Night Shift
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Need For Scream.
A young police officer arrives at a country house after a disturbing call... This VHS tape captures the horrors that happened to him.
- 8
Mirror Forge
Single-player alternative to Need For Scream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Need For Scream.
Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.
- 9
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.
- 10
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.