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Single-player games like Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs, 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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    Jack - The Puppet — Steam game cover

    Jack - The Puppet

    Single-player alternative to Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs.

    Step into a haunted mansion in search of the legendary golden Shiva statue. Solve mind-bending puzzles, face the menacing Jack the Puppet, and survive a deadly 150-second showdown. Can you claim the treasure and escape, or will Jack seal your fate?

    2025ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ritual Tides — Steam game cover

    Ritual Tides

    Single-player alternative to Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs.

    Ritual Tides is a story rich, psychological horror game set on the dark, atmospheric, isolated British island of Hortus. Explore the island, uncover its dark past, loot food, ammunition and supplies, evade the cult of the Fallow Parish, as you fight for survival against Lovecraftian horrors.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rats for Breakfast — Steam game cover

    Rats for Breakfast

    Single-player alternative to Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs.

    Repair enchanted machinery with anything at hand, and face whatever unknown terrors lurk below, in this bizarre post-apocalyptic fantasy horror game from the developer of DUSK, The Moon Sliver, and Squirrel Stapler.

    IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    A.A.U. Black Site — Steam game cover

    A.A.U. Black Site

    Single-player alternative to Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs.

    As an agent of the secret special forces A.A.U., your covert mission in Serbia goes wrong fast. Framed, intercepted, and stranded in the abandoned territory of Uzovnica, you’ll need every skill to survive, especially when everything around you is not what it seems.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure13.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DEBUG DEADLINE — Steam game cover

    DEBUG DEADLINE

    Single-player alternative to Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs.

    The main character is hired as a debugger at the game company “Dokidoki Games”! With a time limit of one week, will he be able to find the bug safely? The debugging work with fate on the line begins now!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    iBLiS — Steam game cover

    iBLiS

    Single-player alternative to Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs.

    Demon is a first-person psychological horror game. How much can a game affect your real life? Enjoy a realistic home environment and terrifying moments of being immersed in a real-life story.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Total Chaos — Steam game cover

    Total Chaos

    Single-player alternative to Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs.

    Fort Oasis is no paradise—it's a decaying nightmare where reality crumbles. The creator of Turbo Overkill unleashes survival-horror stacked with mysteries and monstrosities. Scavenge to craft weapons, while a voice on your walkie-talkie guides you into the island's depths.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Midnight: Submersion - Nightmare Horror Story — Steam game cover

    Midnight: Submersion - Nightmare Horror Story

    Single-player alternative to Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs.

    Nightmare Horror Story an adventure game from the first face in a horror genre provides you to take a trip in a huge and dark city full of dummies. You would have a possibility to figure out in a weird atmosphere when alive people are missed and everything that had remained is the dummies.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SILENT HILL 2 — Steam game cover

    SILENT HILL 2

    Single-player alternative to Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs.

    Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.

    2024ActionAdventure34.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →