Single-player games like The Strange House
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Strange House, 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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The Schism
Single-player alternative to The Strange House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Strange House.
The Schism is a sci-fy horror game. There has been a paranormal split, colliding realities and causing all manner of dangerous lifeforms to scatter across the globe. With the world in chaos, it seems like it's down to you to get to the bottom of it.
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Specimen 13
Single-player alternative to The Strange House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Strange House.
In Specimen 13 you play as one of five survivors (or a traitor) who find themselves as unwilling subjects in an experiment set on a mysterious island. Alternatively, play as the Specimen and prevent the survivors from escaping through the underground elevator.
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Paraplasm: Beyond the Veil
Single-player alternative to The Strange House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Strange House.
You fell into this cursed house! But will you be able to cope with the paranormal activity? Solve the puzzles and try to find your way out!
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Inner Demons
Single-player alternative to The Strange House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Strange House.
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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Hidden Shelter
Single-player alternative to The Strange House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Strange House.
Death lurks in every corner of this journey filled with tension and despair. The brave may not be the smartest here and those who know the time to retreat are more likely to make it out alive in the end ... Find your lost friend in a house that holds unimaginable secrets.
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Pole of Cold
Single-player alternative to The Strange House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Strange House.
Pole of Cold is a sci-fi survival horror game set at a research station somewhere in Antarctica. Explore it and find a way to escape death.
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KONON: The Ritual
Single-player alternative to The Strange House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Strange House.
A narrative-driven psychological horror game set in the haunting town of Tenggarong, where you explore, survive, and uncover buried secrets using your sixth sense to navigate a world twisted by supernatural terror lurking just beneath reality.
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ThroughHelltoHeaven
Single-player alternative to The Strange House — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Strange House.
Help Amy survive the Vile Demons in Hell in order to find the Portal and Ascend to Heaven.