Single-player games like Where Evil Sleeps
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Where Evil Sleeps, 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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Just Anomalies
Single-player alternative to Where Evil Sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where Evil Sleeps.
A slow-burning psychological horror where the fear comes not from monsters, but from the unknown. Each step leads you back to the same room—familiar, yet subtly wrong. The silence weighs heavy, the air feels off, and the deeper you stare, the stronger the sense that something is staring back.
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PhobLack
Single-player alternative to Where Evil Sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Where Evil Sleeps.
"I'm here to stay. But if I don't assert my presence, no one will notice me." PhobLack is a horror adventure game in which you explore a haunted ruin. In a dark and enclosed mansion, restore the ability to communicate with the outside world in order to call for rescue.
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KARJALA
Single-player alternative to Where Evil Sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Where Evil Sleeps.
A hot-tempered private of the Soviet army is sent through a portal to the Backrooms behind a fight with an officer, he needs to find a missing scientists. Monsters are hunting him. Will the soldier be able to survive and return?
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Beyond Silence
Single-player alternative to Where Evil Sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Where Evil Sleeps.
Beyond Silence is a first-person psychological horror where you play as James, a former surgeon who returns to the house of his past. The dark rooms, creaking floors, and forgotten notes hide the horrors he himself had a hand in. But the past won't let him go and it speaks to him through the silence
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IFU
Single-player alternative to Where Evil Sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where Evil Sleeps.
IFU is a psychological horror about a young guy who is forcibly locked in an abandoned mansion of a dead surgeon along with his restless soul.
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The Telephone
Single-player alternative to Where Evil Sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Where Evil Sleeps.
The Telephone is a first-person psychological horror game that will transport you to a world governed by anxiety. You will have to explore the house in which you are locked and the mysterious town of Lonely Plain, searching for clues that can help Roberta regain her memory.
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Astral Phase
Single-player alternative to Where Evil Sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where Evil Sleeps.
Wake in your own home, only to discover your body is still lying in bed. Trapped outside yourself, explore a familiar house shared with beings from other dimensions, uncover the truth, and find a way back before reality collapses.
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After Me
Single-player alternative to Where Evil Sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Where Evil Sleeps.
Tom comes to the House he has recently bought. He wants to spend a couple of days in silence there. But when he arrives, he has a strange feeling that he is not alone in the house. You need to find out why fate brought him to this house.