Single-player games like Boogeyman
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Boogeyman, 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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Boogeyman 2
Single-player alternative to Boogeyman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boogeyman.
Awoken in the night by your doll. Speaking as if it possesses a mind of its own. The doll warns you of a monster that has come to take you away.
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Frosty Nights
Single-player alternative to Boogeyman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Boogeyman.
Frosty Nights is a First Person hybrid horror game that focuses on atmosphere and suspense.
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Single-player alternative to Boogeyman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Boogeyman.
Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.
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Emily Wants To Play
Single-player alternative to Boogeyman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Boogeyman.
It’s 11pm and the last house on your route. The windows are boarded up, the yard is overgrown, but the lights are on and the front door is open… strange place to deliver a pizza. You’re getting soaked from the rain, so you hesitantly step inside the house. You shouldn’t have done that.
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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to Boogeyman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boogeyman.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Boogeyman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Boogeyman.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Boogeyman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boogeyman.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Don't Knock Twice
Single-player alternative to Boogeyman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boogeyman.
Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. One knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. Supports VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for the ultimate horror experience!
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Five Nights at Freddy's
Single-player alternative to Boogeyman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Boogeyman.
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Boogeyman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Boogeyman.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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Boogeyman 3
Single-player alternative to Boogeyman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boogeyman.
A child lays awake in the light of the moon, unaware the Halloween curse will be starting soon. The radio crackles to life, a mysterious girl...