Single-player games like BACKROOMS ANOMALY
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to BACKROOMS ANOMALY, 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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The Exit 8
Single-player alternative to BACKROOMS ANOMALY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with BACKROOMS ANOMALY.
You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".
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Visage
Single-player alternative to BACKROOMS ANOMALY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with BACKROOMS ANOMALY.
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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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to BACKROOMS ANOMALY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with BACKROOMS ANOMALY.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
Single-player alternative to BACKROOMS ANOMALY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with BACKROOMS ANOMALY.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
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Botany Manor
Single-player alternative to BACKROOMS ANOMALY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with BACKROOMS ANOMALY.
Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with research, to figure out the ideal habitat of forgotten flora. Grow each plant to discover the mysterious qualities they hold…
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The Norwood Suite
Single-player alternative to BACKROOMS ANOMALY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with BACKROOMS ANOMALY.
Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to BACKROOMS ANOMALY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with BACKROOMS ANOMALY.
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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SOMA
Single-player alternative to BACKROOMS ANOMALY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with BACKROOMS ANOMALY.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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BACKROOMS STORIES
Single-player alternative to BACKROOMS ANOMALY — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Read five horror stories set in the Backrooms. Experience existential horror and terrifying encounters while making choices that will alter your fate. Will you escape or be lost forever?