Single-player games like Blackroots
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Blackroots, 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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NO BACKUP
Single-player alternative to Blackroots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blackroots.
Escape together or die alone. In this intense co-op bodycam horror game, you and your team are hunted by a relentless creature. Communicate, stay quiet, and fight to survive. Every move counts. Every sound could be your last.
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Paranormal Cleanup
Single-player alternative to Blackroots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blackroots.
Clock in for the worst cleaning shift of your life: Unclog nasty toilets and scrub ectoplasm in this 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Get the job done and don't get caught by the entities hunting you!
- 3
CRYO
Single-player alternative to Blackroots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blackroots.
CRYO is a multiplayer co-op survival horror for 1-4 players. You have been deployed by your company to various locations around the Antarctic due to communication issues. What awaits you in these dark, remote regions is far more sinister than a technical fault...
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The Outlast Trials
Single-player alternative to Blackroots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blackroots.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
- 5
Storebound
Single-player alternative to Blackroots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blackroots.
A 1-3 co-op puzzle horror game. Lost in an accursed megastore, work together to find the exit before its lurking horrors trap you forever.
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Backrooms: Extractions
Single-player alternative to Blackroots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blackroots.
Cooperate with up to 6 players to explore, search, and extract lost agents within the Backrooms. Solve puzzles, unlock tools, survive against entities, and progress through increasingly dangerous levels.
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Deathground
Single-player alternative to Blackroots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blackroots.
A 1-4 player co-op horror game that throws you into a desperate fight for survival against deadly dinosaurs. Run, hide and work together to complete missions and uncover the secrets buried within the abandoned AEON research facility. Can you and your friends make it out alive?
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Malum
Single-player alternative to Blackroots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blackroots.
Malum is the premier C-list horror game. Run from a motely collection of bizarre demons then summon in some guns to turn the tables on them. Best enjoyed with friends.