Single-player games like This is Interesting
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to This is Interesting, 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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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to This is Interesting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This is Interesting.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Subliminal
Single-player alternative to This is Interesting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This is Interesting.
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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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to This is Interesting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This is Interesting.
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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NO-SKIN
Single-player alternative to This is Interesting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with This is Interesting.
Horror Roguelike characterized by an experimental artstyle and storytelling, strategic gameplay and deep mysteries
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Ethel
Single-player alternative to This is Interesting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This is Interesting.
Welcome to my first game! Where you'll Immerse yourself in a unbelievable, story-rich mystery, packed with jaw-dropping plot twist, horror, and multiple endings.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to This is Interesting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This is Interesting.
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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CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
Single-player alternative to This is Interesting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This is Interesting.
A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.
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Grunn
Single-player alternative to This is Interesting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This is Interesting.
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to This is Interesting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with This is Interesting.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to This is Interesting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with This is Interesting.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Blue Prince
Single-player alternative to This is Interesting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This is Interesting.
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?