Single-player games like IMSCARED
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to IMSCARED, 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 Man Can Deny
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
Isolated on the open sea, equipped with a rusty lantern and a tape recorder. Endure the pain or drown like the rest in this short resource-management horror game.
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Frostbiter
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
Can you survive from Frostbiter and escape his snowy maze of horror? Use snowballs to defend yourself, find your way in the maze, try to escape, and most important of all: don't let him catch you!
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Death Counter
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
You're a cameraman, filming dead bodies and unseen horrors from the past, and instantly changing what the Death Counter watches in the future.
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Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.
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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
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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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
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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Wick
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
Wick is a survival horror game where ghost stories are brought to life. Explore a local legend about the long lost children in the woods who can still be seen... but only by those who dare to enter alone by candlelight.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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OneShot
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with IMSCARED.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with IMSCARED.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Undertale
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with IMSCARED.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
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The Witch's House
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
There is an old house on the edge of a small town. All the locals have always avoided it, as strange and mysterious events constantly happen there. This time, what happened in this house made the whole city shudder with fear.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with IMSCARED.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Buddy Simulator 1984
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with IMSCARED.
Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with IMSCARED.
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.
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WORLD OF HORROR
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with IMSCARED.
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
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Mirror Layers
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
Mirror Layers is a first person social horror game. Cooperate with other players through an in-game social network to solve challenging puzzles.Explore to uncover the mystery behind Apartment 12 and its horrific and distorted mirror reality.
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FIREWORK
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
Follow Yan the Defective One through his fight against the Fire Troops and let him unveil the Facility's mystery in this action platformer.
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A Day - to bring them happiness
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
In A Day you'll be able to control 8 different characters in a 2D side-scrolling open map: give them life by chaining their actions, rewind the time and reach for the highest score possible! This day is yours to make!