Single-player games like Sophie's Curse
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Sophie's Curse, 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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Five Nights at Freddy's
Single-player alternative to Sophie's Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sophie's Curse.
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
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Angel Engine
Single-player alternative to Sophie's Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Sophie's Curse.
Cage an angel. Ransack Heaven. In a far-flung dystopian future, the Angel Engine Initiative carries on as the last hope for humanity. Seal yourself in your operating room, perform surgery on comatose test subjects, and pray you make it out alive.
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Creepy Shift: Roadside Diner
Single-player alternative to Sophie's Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sophie's Curse.
A broke young man takes on the night shift at a roadside diner. In the glow of the blood moon, routine tasks turn into a fight for survival. First-person horror based on a dark creepypasta with a set of rescue rules.
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Huntsman
Single-player alternative to Sophie's Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Trapped inside a spider-infested research facility, Huntsman immerses you in a survival horror experience fueled by arachnophobia. Combining realistic spider behavior with intense tension, Huntsman will test your nerve like never before.
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Wick
Single-player alternative to Sophie's Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sophie's Curse.
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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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to Sophie's Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sophie's Curse.
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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Emily Wants To Play
Single-player alternative to Sophie's Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sophie's Curse.
It’s 11pm and the last house on your route. The windows are boarded up, the yard is overgrown, but the lights are on and the front door is open… strange place to deliver a pizza. You’re getting soaked from the rain, so you hesitantly step inside the house. You shouldn’t have done that.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Sophie's Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sophie's Curse.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Sophie's Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sophie's Curse.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Last Neighbor
Single-player alternative to Sophie's Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Sophie's Curse.
You play as a young thief who broke into the wrong house, he thought the place was empty because he saw the owners leaving with suitcases, but there was still somebody in the house. It could be dangerous so you have to get out fast.
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darkcase : the basement
Single-player alternative to Sophie's Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sophie's Curse.
You play as a ghosthunter investigating paranormal darkcases. This time you are investigating a house where a little girl was murdered and people have seen her roaming around the place, especially in the basement where she died.
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Sponchies
Single-player alternative to Sophie's Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Sophie's Curse.
Welcome to the Sponchies tryouts, The Sponchies are an ELITE TEAM created by the government to do special, secret, impossible missions; Only the best are able to get into the program. In order to become a Sponchie you have to complete a set of 50 incredibly difficult hand crafted levels.