Single-player games like Desiderium
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Desiderium, 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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Abode: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Desiderium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
Abode: Definitive Edition is the updated edition of Abode, it is a short walking simulator horror game, you are stuck in a loop going through a small house, when horror starts happening around you.
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TIMORE NARHELMA
Single-player alternative to Desiderium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
Timore Narhelma is a surreal experience about human mind and horrors within.
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.redruM
Single-player alternative to Desiderium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
.redruM is a psychological horror game blending realism and visual experimentation. Inspired by liminal spaces, backrooms, and real crime scenes, you play as a photographer uncovering the identity behind gruesome murders. .redruM is the red room where unshared photos are developed.
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Tunnel Baby
Single-player alternative to Desiderium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
On one rainy morning, Steve found a baby in a utility tunnel. He is not alone. Navigate eerie locales, solve puzzles, and face bizarre creatures to uncover a cosmic mystery in Tunnel Baby.
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Face of Fear: The Forester
Single-player alternative to Desiderium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
Face of Fear: The Forester is a psychological horror where you become a new forest ranger. A couple of months of silence, a house in the middle of a dense forest and not a soul around, what could go wrong?
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D.
Single-player alternative to Desiderium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
Experience a 2D psychological horror about the fragility of the human mind. Communicate with disturbed patients, solve diagnostic puzzles, and discover the correct frequency to cure them. Face your inner doubt as you navigate the dark labyrinth of psychological trauma
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Carmencarmen
Single-player alternative to Desiderium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
You wake up on the beach, with water crashing against your body. You don't remember anything, you don't know where you are, and everything hurts. The meaningless mass of flesh and metal seems to be breathing... It doesn't make sense, but it's breathing...
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The Voss Clinic
Single-player alternative to Desiderium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
A psychiatric hospital. 1986. The staff are dead. The doors are open. You have no memory of how you got here or why your name is on a patient file. No monsters. No combat. Only the silence of empty corridors, and the slow realization of what was done to you.