Single-player games like SCP: Control Error
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to SCP: Control Error, 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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Clink
Single-player alternative to SCP: Control Error — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
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?
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to SCP: Control Error — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
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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Platform 8
Single-player alternative to SCP: Control Error — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.
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Fuck You Witch
Single-player alternative to SCP: Control Error — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
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
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Chorus of Carcosa
Single-player alternative to SCP: Control Error — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
Chorus of Carcosa is a first-person psychological horror game about an anxious sculptor who is trapped in a dark and ever-changing building. Stay silent, survive its twisted labyrinths and escape the monsters. Just don’t lose your way in the shadows or within your own mind.
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There's Something In The Ice
Single-player alternative to SCP: Control Error — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
In 2015, three scientists at the Antarctic research station "Zarya" drilled into the ice to a depth of 2 kilometers and took samples for study... It seems that what they found was not at all what they were looking for...
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Visage
Single-player alternative to SCP: Control Error — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
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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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to SCP: Control Error — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.