Single-player games like Lurks Beneath
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Lurks Beneath, 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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Hillthorn
Single-player alternative to Lurks Beneath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lurks Beneath.
A disappearance in a secluded community. A mountain hiding its secrets. A detective running out of time. Welcome to Hillthorn, a dark investigation game that invites you to uncover the mystery without a single word spoken, using your skills of logic and intuition through cards.
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Eyes Wide Open
Single-player alternative to Lurks Beneath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lurks Beneath.
Work for a dystopian Inspection Bureau, Determine whether the subjects are humans or not, Uncover secrets, Endure psychological horrors and reach your work quota - or else.
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Black File
Single-player alternative to Lurks Beneath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lurks Beneath.
Istanbul, after midnight. Black File is a noir detective game: investigate crime scenes, examine evidence in 3D — rotate it, zoom in, read the back — then use what you find to break a suspect's story.
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Federal Cadet
Single-player alternative to Lurks Beneath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lurks Beneath.
Federal Cadet is a single-player police simulation and investigation game. Start as a cadet in Pinewood, patrol the town, question witnesses and suspects, analyze evidence, and rise through the department ranks.
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The Price of Grief
Single-player alternative to Lurks Beneath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lurks Beneath.
Dive into a decade of secrets, mysterious characters and their inexplicable deaths - in the shadow of the darkest time in human history. Investigate crimes, decode documents, collect clues and solve riddles - one word at a time. The deeper you read, the less any of it seems to be an accident.
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Her Story
Single-player alternative to Lurks Beneath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Lurks Beneath.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
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Contradiction: Spot The Liar
Single-player alternative to Lurks Beneath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lurks Beneath.
Spot the lie and beat the liars in 'Contradiction' - the all-video murder mystery adventure!
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Uncover the Smoking Gun
Single-player alternative to Lurks Beneath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lurks Beneath.
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
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Project Looking Glass
Single-player alternative to Lurks Beneath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lurks Beneath.
1963. A classified experiment. A grieving mother with unnatural powers. Step into a first-person psychological horror told through the static of a Cold War-era monitor peering into the astral realm and beyond. Find out what happened to you and uncover the conspiracy they tried to bury.
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Simulation Simulator
Single-player alternative to Lurks Beneath — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A freeform chat simulator where you attempt to convince a built-in LLM that it does not exist.
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Fill The Void
Single-player alternative to Lurks Beneath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Lurks Beneath.
Start Small. Consume. Get huge. 'Fill The Void' is a physics-driven incremental 3D platforming collectathon where you play as a black hole.