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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Pony Island
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with IMSCARED.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
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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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
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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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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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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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with IMSCARED.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
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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Amnesia: Rebirth
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with IMSCARED.
A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
- 15
Iron Lung
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with IMSCARED.
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
- 16
Now you can't see me
Single-player alternative to IMSCARED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with IMSCARED.
First person puzzle. Solve riddles by closing your eyes or blinking them. While your eyes are closed, time freezes and gravity has no power over you. There is a funny voice acting and non-trivial tasks included.
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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!