Single-player games like Liminal City
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Liminal City, 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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LIMINAL SHIFT
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
Liminal Shift is a unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite. With every step you take, Liminal Shift pushes you deeper into an eerie, unsettling experience like no other.
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Liminalcore
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
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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Dreamcore
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
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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Subliminal
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
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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Liminal Universe
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
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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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
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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The Lightkeeper
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
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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Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.
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POOLS
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Liminal City.
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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DREAM LOGIC
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
DREAM LOGIC is a story driven first-person atmospheric horror game which takes place in liminal spaces. Explore various nostalgic, dreamlike, uncanny environments. But don't feel too safe, there's a sneaky creature watching your every move.
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SANRI
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
SANRI is a first-person psychological horror game where you play a schizophrenic character whose wife disappeared during camp. Face the delusions, solve the mystery and try to find her despite your constantly distorted perception of time-space.
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Cursed Bet
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
Cursed Bet is a horror game where you play from a body camera perspective. Enter the abandoned preschool, the subject of terrible rumors, in the midnight. Struggle the cursed doll Ebeleen as you investigate the school's dark past. Will you be able to destroy him and his curse?
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Cloudrooms
Single-player alternative to Liminal City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
You are trapped in a corridor suspended above the clouds. At the end lies a door. Explore the ever-changing environment each time you open it, find anomalies, use the alarm, and break the loop.