Single-player games like Fingerbones
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Fingerbones, 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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the static speaks my name
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fingerbones.
A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.
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The Moon Sliver
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Fingerbones.
You are on a bleak, cold, windy island. And you seem to be alone... but fires and candles still burn. As you explore, a story of guilt, loneliness, and faith begins to take shape. And it becomes obvious that something is hunting you...
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fingerbones.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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The Music Machine
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fingerbones.
A teenage girl and the vengeful ghost possessing her stumble onto horrors of cosmic proportions as the latter searches for a way to murder the former.
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DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fingerbones.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
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Serena
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fingerbones.
How long has it been? A man sits in a distant getaway cabin waiting for his wife Serena. Where is she? Things in the cabin evoke memories, and the husband comes to a disturbing realization... This short point-and-click adventure is the result of a massive collaborative effort between dozens of fans and designers of adventure games.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fingerbones.
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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Homesick
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fingerbones.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
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DUSK
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Fingerbones.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
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Iron Lung
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fingerbones.
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
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Gloomwood
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Fingerbones.
Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.
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Chop Goblins
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Fingerbones.
A fast-paced micro FPS in which The Chop Goblins are loose, chopping their way through time itself in their ravenous quest for cheese. And THE CHOP WILL NOT STOP.
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Squirrel Stapler
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hunt squirrels, staple them to a corpse, and meet god.
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Butcher's Creek
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A first person melee horror game where you use rusty tools to brutalize a gang of serial torturers in the remote Appalachian Forest.
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The Pony Factory
Single-player alternative to Fingerbones — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Winston thought he could use heavy machinery and power from the depths of hell to transform sinful men into magic ponies. Winston was wrong.