Single-player games like Distorted Minds
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Distorted Minds, 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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These Roads are Terminal
Single-player alternative to Distorted Minds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distorted Minds.
Step into the shoes of a wage-slave and work the graveyard delivery shift at Vito's! It's not glamorous, but it pays rent. Leave the safety of your car and step into the streets of a decaying suburbia. Deliver to peculiar customers while trying to ignore that feeling of being watched...
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She'll Be Home Soon
Single-player alternative to Distorted Minds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distorted Minds.
Your wife will be home soon, and the house is a disaster. Race against the clock to clean, cook, fix problems and keep everything under control in a first-person horror-comedy where ordinary household chores become increasingly strange and unsettling.
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Back rooms: The old Watcher
Single-player alternative to Distorted Minds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distorted Minds.
This work is inspired by Exit 8, Backrooms, and liminal spaces - environments that evoke an unsettling sense of the familiar yet strange. However, is there any way out for the old man? No, there isn't.
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It follows you
Single-player alternative to Distorted Minds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distorted Minds.
You are all alone in this dark and frightening place. Run and hide, hurry to find a way out, because it follows you...
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Many Eyed
Single-player alternative to Distorted Minds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distorted Minds.
These dark and desolate woods appear abandoned. Can you still hear the whispers of its missing hikers? Unravel their mysteries.
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Last Copy
Single-player alternative to Distorted Minds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distorted Minds.
Last Copy is a first-person psychological horror game where an unlabeled VHS tape follows you home, turning familiar places into something impossible to trust.
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The Guard
Single-player alternative to Distorted Minds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distorted Minds.
You are on the night shift at the mall. While you were taking your post, your partner went missing. All the time you hear some kind of noise. You need to find out their origin and find your partner. As you pass, you will need to find the keys and open locked rooms.
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Shhh!
Single-player alternative to Distorted Minds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distorted Minds.
Explore haunted locations with your VHS camera—but stay silent! Any noise could be your last. (Microphone required)
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Midnight Shift
Single-player alternative to Distorted Minds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distorted Minds.
A 90's horror inspired first-person game about working the midnight shift at a gas station.