Single-player games like The Pale Mimic
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Pale Mimic, 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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Glacial
Single-player alternative to The Pale Mimic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
1988, a chill is in the air, and fear hides in the dark. Glacial is an 80s VHS slasher inspired first person horror where you must brave unimaginable terrors lurking in the shadows to discover the truth
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KELDER
Single-player alternative to The Pale Mimic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
Trapped in a sinister post-Soviet basement, uncover the truth behind dark experiments and eerie anomalies. Solve puzzles, find keys, and survive against terrifying entities as you explore this atmospheric survival horror. Can you escape the depths of the KELDER?
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Greenhouse
Single-player alternative to The Pale Mimic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
Infiltrate a strangely beautiful botanical facility to investigate its closure. Things get more surreal the deeper you go. Alter your surroundings with weather-changing mechanics, align 3D objects to unlock pathways. Two modes: Entities or pure exploration.
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The Midnight Bus
Single-player alternative to The Pale Mimic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
A short narrative horror experience, in which you find yourself in the middle of nowhere in a snowstorm without knowing what has happened to the driver or the other passengers in the vehicle, you just know that there is something out there lurking.
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UNPUNISHED
Single-player alternative to The Pale Mimic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
Realizing that Mark will have to return to his family home, he begins to gradually sort through the family archives. Mark will have to read his parents' old letters, go down into the deepest parts of the house to unravel the secrets that have been hidden from him all these years.
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Zombie Claus
Single-player alternative to The Pale Mimic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
You find yourself in a big empty house. Around the Christmas lights, but no friends, no family, and only bad Santa. Solve the mystery of the protagonist.
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Beyond Silence
Single-player alternative to The Pale Mimic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
Beyond Silence is a first-person psychological horror where you play as James, a former surgeon who returns to the house of his past. The dark rooms, creaking floors, and forgotten notes hide the horrors he himself had a hand in. But the past won't let him go and it speaks to him through the silence
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EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS
Single-player alternative to The Pale Mimic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
You are the exploration team from company Async, you arrive to reported anomaly place and searching for anomalies, but what would you find? Prepare yourself for a gripping and heart-pounding adventure in EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS, where every step could be your last.
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GAT RAT
Single-player alternative to The Pale Mimic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Pale Mimic.
A rat with a massive arsenal. Cook up your favorite combination of guns, spells, and perks to casually annihilate your enemies throughout the realms.
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Whispering Fog
Single-player alternative to The Pale Mimic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
Whispering Fog is a first person psychological horror game set in an ever-changing forest shrouded in fog. A quiet getaway becomes a sinister nightmare as the illusion of safety and solitude slowly crumbles around you.
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Withered Haven
Single-player alternative to The Pale Mimic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
Withered Haven is a first-person psychological horror game. After the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, a broken man struggles to endure a collapsing reality. Familiar apparitions drift closer, echoing memories that mask a darkness beyond comprehension.
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Hollow Crew
Single-player alternative to The Pale Mimic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
Hollow Crew is a survival horror set in the confines of an isolated space station. Its loyal androids have suddenly been turned against you - survive their relentless hunt and contain the emergency, or die trying.