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Single-player games like Black Lake

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Black Lake, 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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    Lens Of Fear — Steam game cover

    Lens Of Fear

    Single-player alternative to Black Lake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.

    Realistic, hyper-immersive, intense action-adventure horror game. Developed by PlayableGraph as their debut title. This game combines a portable camera perspective with highly detailed environments and immersive sound design to deliver an authentic horror experience.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Alien Deathstorm — Steam game cover

    Alien Deathstorm

    Single-player alternative to Black Lake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.

    Explore a devastated off-world colony that is ravaged by a cataclysmic mega-storm and overrun by bloodthirsty aliens in a desperate fight to survive.

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    Bushside Rangers — Steam game cover

    Bushside Rangers

    Single-player alternative to Black Lake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.

    Bushside Rangers® is a first-person survival horror game that forces you to use your wits as you navigate through the dark, dreary depths of an abandoned nature park.

    2025ActionIndieAdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Alkimya: House of Wisdom — Steam game cover

    Alkimya: House of Wisdom

    Single-player alternative to Black Lake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.

    A first-person survival horror game set in the House of Wisdom during the 1258 siege of Baghdad. Scavenge for resources, craft alchemical flasks, unlock an interconnected sanctum of Golden Age puzzles, and survive the Mongol invaders — and the cosmic horror waiting beneath them.

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    Inner Demons — Steam game cover

    Inner Demons

    Single-player alternative to Black Lake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.

    Inner Demons is a first-person psychological horror game where the line between madness and reality dissolves. Explore, fight, and evade disturbing manifestations of your own mind as they invade the world around you - if you can tell them apart from what is real.

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    QuietMansion1 — Steam game cover

    QuietMansion1

    Single-player alternative to Black Lake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.

    Explore a dark and creepy mansion crawling with terrifying monsters, find keys, and use weapons to fight back as you try to find your way out!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Legacy of Mind — Steam game cover

    Legacy of Mind

    Single-player alternative to Black Lake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.

    Legacy of Mind is the first gothic soulslike FPS where nightmares and reality have merged. Face colossal Monarchs that rule over the broken world twisted by living nightmares and unlock otherworldy powers hidden within your mind, but with every power unlocked, something in the dark wakes with you...

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SILENT REALM — Steam game cover

    SILENT REALM

    Single-player alternative to Black Lake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.

    Free To Play Game, An atmospheric action horror experience set in a non-human realm governed by rules unlike our own. A world of skeletal entities and shifting remains, where forms assemble and decay endlessly, and death exists as an active, hostile force rather than an outcome.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →