Single-player games like Scratches - Director's Cut
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Scratches - Director's Cut, 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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ASYLUM
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horror from the 80s.
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The Lost Crown
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Embark on an eerie ghost-hunting adventure, featuring real evidence of paranormal activity, to solve the mystery of the Lost Crown. Be warned, to seek advice from the dead can have bitter consequences.
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Dark Fall: Lost Souls
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Travel to the old train station and hotel, abandoned since 1947, following the 'disappearances'. Unravel the mystery that binds this place, by communicating with the ghosts of the long since dead, both in your time and theirs.
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Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.
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Still Life
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Still Life 2 also now available!
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An English Haunting
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
While looking for the existence of the Great Beyond, Professor Patrick Moore, aided by a fake medium, will build a device to see the other side, embark on a search for a millenary artifact, and investigate the most haunted manor of 1907 England.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
The Sherlock Holmes series returns with this updated version of The Awakened, which brings a whole new dimension to the original title developed by Frogwares. The game puts the player into an investigation of the Cthulhu Mythos - as imagined by Father of modern horror, H.P. Lovecraft.
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The Whispering Valley
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Explore a remote village and solve complex puzzles in The Whispering Valley, a folk horror point & click game. Delve into guilt and depression to investigate the village's deepest secret.
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The 7th Guest
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Henry Stauf's mansion has been abandoned for as long as anyone dare remember. Stauf was a master toy maker, a maker of amazing puzzles and this strange house was his greatest creation. Now the mansion stands empty, rotting ever since the children started dying, ever since the six guests came.
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Myst
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.