Single-player games like Running Through Backrooms
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Running Through Backrooms, 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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Psych Rift
Single-player alternative to Running Through Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Running Through Backrooms.
Psych Rift is a supernatural action-adventure game where armed with only a telekinetic glove and your wits, you must survive reality-bending nightmare worlds and their monsters to escape a research lab consumed by a dark entity from another dimension.
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LET ME BOOK
Single-player alternative to Running Through Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Running Through Backrooms.
Let Me Book is an intense, first-person survival game where your goal is to return the books to their bookshelves and not DIE in the process. You're a late night shift worker at a haunted library. Danger lurks around every bookshelf! Return the books and escape the library!
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MIRROR MIRROR
Single-player alternative to Running Through Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Running Through Backrooms.
MIRROR MIRROR is a first-person psychological horror game. You repeatedly find yourself in a house where you find presence of unknown entities. Go through unreal experiences in the house and uncover the secrets of your fractured mind. Experience the tension and fear in the repeating space.
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Chronicles Of The Sinner
Single-player alternative to Running Through Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Running Through Backrooms.
Chronicles of The Sinner is a first-person survival horror set inside an abandoned orphanage. As a lone investigator, you are sent to uncover what happened within its walls. Explore, gather resources, solve puzzles, and try to survive… if you don’t lose yourself first.
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Welcome to PINEHILLS
Single-player alternative to Running Through Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Running Through Backrooms.
An unknown highway led you here. And now you are here alone. Or not alone?
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Stay Still 2
Single-player alternative to Running Through Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Running Through Backrooms.
Welcome to Stay Still 2, a spine-chilling first-person survival horror game. Based of the Vietnamese culture, this game unfolds as a daring experiment in which survival seems nearly impossible. Engage in a story gameplay, where puzzles are your key to progress, while surviving various threats.
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Silent Research
Single-player alternative to Running Through Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Running Through Backrooms.
Silent Research is a short, atmospheric horror experience. Explore a fog-drenched forest, recover your missing research, and escape—before the silence breaks.
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Backrooms: Savior
Single-player alternative to Running Through Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Running Through Backrooms.
That's a co-op horror exploration shooter set in the Backrooms. This time, you won’t just hide—grab your weapon and fight back against the entities. Explore classic and original levels, scavenge supplies, rescue survivors, and survive. Ammo is scarce. Noise is deadly. This time, fear goes both ways.