Single-player games like The Strange Lights
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to The Strange Lights, 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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Luto
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Strange Lights.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
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Summer of '58
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Strange Lights.
In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.
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Martha Is Dead
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Strange Lights.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
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Reflection
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Strange Lights.
You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Strange Lights.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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Silent Nights
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Strange Lights.
Silent Nights - A short horror game with realistic graphics, touching storyline and scary moments.
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The Cursed Tape
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Strange Lights.
Someone slipped a mysterious videotape under your door... Do you dare watch it?!
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Strange Lights.
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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Abandoned Souls
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Strange Lights.
Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.
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Christmas Nightmare
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Strange Lights.
Christmas Nightmare is an atmospheric horror game about New Year's Eve.
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There's Something In The Ice
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Strange Lights.
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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In My Head
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Strange Lights.
You have been sent photographs of a place where, according to rumors, an artifact of an ancient civilization is hidden... Do you dare to go there?!
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The Dark Gift
Single-player alternative to The Strange Lights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Strange Lights.
The Dark Gift is a horror game about Christmas and New Year.