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Single-player games like The Next Door

Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to The Next Door, 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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    Hotel The Memory — Steam game cover

    Hotel The Memory

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next Door.

    “If you find an anomaly, remember it.” Welcome to Hotel The Memory, an anomaly-hunting x memory-matching escape game. Match pairs of rooms with the exact same anomaly to escape from this strange hotel.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Supernatural Archives:The Frontrooms — Steam game cover

    Supernatural Archives:The Frontrooms

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next Door.

    A first-person light psychological horror exploration game inspired by the Backrooms, Poolcore, and liminal spaces. Explore corridors, pools, wild fields, and rooms, observe environmental clues, solve mechanisms and rule-based minigames, and find a way out of the Frontrooms.

    2027IndieAdventureCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Frutigeropolis: The Promised City — Steam game cover

    Frutigeropolis: The Promised City

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next Door.

    Step into a surreal city of the old future. Explore environments shaped by the soul of early 2000s design. Slow down inside a world built to be remembered.

    IndieAdventureCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Floor Glitch — Steam game cover

    Floor Glitch

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next Door.

    Escape from an anomalous 8-storey apartment building where every floor presents a new challenge. You cannot simply walk downstairs or take the elevator. The building will keep bringing you back until you complete the main task on each floor...

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Candy Puzzle — Steam game cover

    Candy Puzzle

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next Door.

    FPS puzzle game where player need solve puzzles and collect cakes

    2024IndieAdventureCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Elision Effect — Steam game cover

    The Elision Effect

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next Door.

    The Elision Effect is a short surreal puzzle game. The last person finds themselves in an empty office. The place seems off, like it shouldn’t exist. Not knowing what made everyone abandon these liminal spaces, they look for an exit.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    FRACT OSC — Steam game cover

    FRACT OSC

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next Door.

    FRACT is a musical exploration game. You arrive in a forgotten place and explore the vast and unfamiliar landscape to discover the secrets of a world built on sound. You rebuild its machinery by solving puzzles and bring the world back to life by shaping sound and creating music in the game.

    2014IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    What Happened to Lily? — Steam game cover

    What Happened to Lily?

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next Door.

    What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Stanley Parable — Steam game cover

    The Stanley Parable

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next Door.

    The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Strange Night — Steam game cover

    Strange Night

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Next Door.

    As an employee of a night security firm, your first night on the job might be your last, as strange events push your sanity to the limit.

    2016Indie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    iREC — Steam game cover

    iREC

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Next Door.

    A narcotics police officer invades a logistics company, suspected of drug trafficking. Looking for evidence, he discovers an even greater secret, and his mission now and leave the place alive. iREC presents moments of tension, with an incredible atmosphere of terror.

    2017Indie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Descent - Silence of Mind — Steam game cover

    Descent - Silence of Mind

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next Door.

    Hypnosis, memories, delusions and a disturbing secret revolve around silence of mind.

    2017IndieAdventure0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Overhead — Steam game cover

    Overhead

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next Door.

    A bunker evacuated miles below the earth, you were kept frozen and forgotten ... until now. Overhead, a first person game of exploration, puzzles and terror. survive experiments and mutations in the dark and discover the surface exit. if it still exists.

    2018IndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Strange Night ll — Steam game cover

    Strange Night ll

    Single-player alternative to The Next Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Next Door.

    Strange Night II takes you to a mysterious hostel where your sanity will be put to the test.

    2018Indie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →