Single-player games like Lurking
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Lurking, 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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The Abandoned Levels
Single-player alternative to Lurking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lurking.
After personal tragedy, you fall into the nightmarish Backrooms. Navigate handcrafted levels, evade deadly creatures, and cling to your sanity. Find the exit – and the answer to whether survival is worth the struggle at all.
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The Haunting Eyes
Single-player alternative to Lurking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
The Haunting Eyes is a game in which you have to break into an abandoned mansion and solve its mystery by collecting bags of gold.
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Maid of Sker VR
Single-player alternative to Lurking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
Maid of Sker VR is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic… don’t even breathe!
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to Lurking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Lurking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Lurking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
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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Hatch
Single-player alternative to Lurking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
"Hatch is a single-player, first-person horror game. You find a hatch in your room and strange things start to happen to you. You are the target of psycho killers. You have to find the truth behind the hatch and escape from the crazy world.
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The Backrooms Project
Single-player alternative to Lurking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
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Phantom Squad
Single-player alternative to Lurking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
Phantom Squad is a 1-4 player co-op tactical top-down shooter blending fast-paced combat with real-time strategy. Play solo or team up through online co-op and matchmaking, coordinating movement, positioning, and split-second decisions to survive intense, high-risk missions.