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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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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Michael Test
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
This is a test about sin. An audio-driven horror mystery where you reconstruct the hidden timeline inside a painting through sound and expose the sin concealed within.
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Post Mortem
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
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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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Dead Secret
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. A reclusive professor is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case before you become the next victim. Investigate the murder and explore the story Time Magazine called “captivating” and “deeply creepy” .
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Decay: The Mare
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Sam is an addict who ends up in an institution named “Reaching Dreams”, hoping to kick his drug problem and sort out his miserable life. But during the first night, something goes horribly wrong and he gets stuck in an endless nightmare…
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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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Serena
Single-player alternative to Scratches - Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
How long has it been? A man sits in a distant getaway cabin waiting for his wife Serena. Where is she? Things in the cabin evoke memories, and the husband comes to a disturbing realization... This short point-and-click adventure is the result of a massive collaborative effort between dozens of fans and designers of adventure games.
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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.