Single-player games like Joyful Masks
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Joyful Masks, 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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Nightmares Awake
Single-player alternative to Joyful Masks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joyful Masks.
A first-person psychological horror game where literary classics twist into a teenager’s personal nightmares. Explore the bleak worlds of Nikolai Gogol, evade monsters straight out of classic books, and solve puzzles to help a young girl conquer her deepest fears.
- 2
Not My Son
Single-player alternative to Joyful Masks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joyful Masks.
A psychological horror game where a stepfather is left alone with a disturbing child. Explore a quiet house, face growing nightmares, and piece together the truth behind the boy’s behavior.
- 3
Siren's Call: Free Beta Edition
Single-player alternative to Joyful Masks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Joyful Masks.
This is an outdated, public beta for Siren's Call: Escape Velocity. Home is where your body is. And like any good tourist trap, Siren’s Call will do whatever it can to keep you there as long as possible. They will drag you down like crabs in a bucket. They will make this place home.
- 4
What Happened to Lily?
Single-player alternative to Joyful Masks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joyful Masks.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
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Time To Wake Up
Single-player alternative to Joyful Masks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joyful Masks.
You're stuck in a dream. Blink and change your surroundings to escape the shadows of your past.
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The Voss Clinic
Single-player alternative to Joyful Masks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joyful Masks.
A psychiatric hospital. 1986. The staff are dead. The doors are open. You have no memory of how you got here or why your name is on a patient file. No monsters. No combat. Only the silence of empty corridors, and the slow realization of what was done to you.
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JAWED
Single-player alternative to Joyful Masks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Joyful Masks.
Jawed is a psychological horror game where you play as Adam, a man muzzled by a life of silent torture since the disappearance of his fiancée. Presented with evidence that she may be alive, Adam must confront their strained relationship and face the only thing that can truly set him free: the truth.
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THE DAY I WILL DIE
Single-player alternative to Joyful Masks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joyful Masks.
Trapped in a misty valley of endless time loops, confront echoes of your childhood and creatures from old tales and legends. Explore forgotten paths stirring subconscious fears, face nightmarish foes, and uncover a story of fading dreams and shadows of adulthood.