Single-player games like Terror Lab
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Terror Lab, 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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Phantaruk
Single-player alternative to Terror Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terror Lab.
Phantaruk combines survival horror with adventure and stealth mechanics. Expect true shivers down your spine as you fight for your life not only facing the dangers of the Purity-02 spaceship, but most of all - when you try to get rid of toxins continually destroying you from the inside.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Terror Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terror Lab.
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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Black Rose
Single-player alternative to Terror Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terror Lab.
Equipped with a flashlight, investigate an abandoned funeral home that's said to be haunted. Find out what really happened to the people who once worked there, and hope that this dark, eerie building doesn't become your final resting place.
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The Hat Man: Shadow Ward
Single-player alternative to Terror Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terror Lab.
Based on a true story, discover the horror of the Canton insane asylum as you attempt to rescue your daughter. Experience the scariest game of 2014.
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Distrust: Polar Survival
Single-player alternative to Terror Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terror Lab.
DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.
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INFERNIUM
Single-player alternative to Terror Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terror Lab.
Infernium, a survival horror approach to Pac-Man. Dive in a non-linear beautiful portrait of hell, die in a prison without bars and overcome a brutal penitence. Also available on Switch and PS4!
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Terror Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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Sophie's Curse
Single-player alternative to Terror Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terror Lab.
You got a job, which is to take care of an old man during the night in a recently purchased house; this house does not have electricity and you have to rely on some kind of hand crank generators to light the place up, but there is something in the darkness draining their power, don’t let it happen!
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SHOWTIME 2073
Single-player alternative to Terror Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terror Lab.
The best shooter SHOW in 2073.Explosive, Fun & full destructive !
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ALPAGES : THE FIVE BOOKS
Single-player alternative to Terror Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terror Lab.
RUN, ESCAPE, SHOOT, SURVIVE AND FIND THE 5 BOOKS ! An indie Arcade Horror Game.
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Gevaudan
Single-player alternative to Terror Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terror Lab.
Escape the Beast and overcome your own fear.
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SnipZ
Single-player alternative to Terror Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terror Lab.
You are humanity's last hope in the struggle against the aliens and their zombie virus! Get ready for nightmarish combat: you'll have to be fast and accurate if you want to survive! But survival comes at a price, and the currency is hot lead.