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Single-player games like The Keyless: Forbidden Door

Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Keyless: Forbidden Door, 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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    Forsaken Barn — Steam game cover

    Forsaken Barn

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    Psychological horror game focused on finding items and solving puzzles while you are being haunted by a demon.

    2022ActionIndie6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Saintless — Steam game cover

    Saintless

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    Explore the halls of the underground cult of The Open Hand. Experience the test rooms setup for your initiation in this psychological horror exploration game. Never forget....they are always watching.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Chilling Gooey Internet Cafe — Steam game cover

    Chilling Gooey Internet Cafe

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    A reclusive man falls asleep and wakes up in a nightmarish internet café haunted by twisted horrors — mutated moe characters, creatures crawling with hands. Explore, hide, and flee your way to freedom in this first-person horror where reality and nightmare blur. Playtime: ~3 hours.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Backrooms: Liminal Reality — Steam game cover

    The Backrooms: Liminal Reality

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    Explore the backrooms and liminal spaces while trying to find your way out while you fight with the feeling like you are in a dream, or if you have just entered one of your own.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Paradise's Secrets — Steam game cover

    Paradise's Secrets

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    After accepting the invitation from the Paradise company following the events we've experienced, nothing on our journey may turn out as we expect. You must be very careful to uncover all the mystery and reveal the truth. Learn everything and expose the true face of the Paradise company.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Beyond The Evil — Steam game cover

    Beyond The Evil

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    Beyond the Evil is an psychological horror game that places the player to a hard experience to find who created one supposed plague that might doom the world.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hotel Overloop — Steam game cover

    Hotel Overloop

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    You’ve stucked into a loop in the mysterious hotel. Find anomalies to escape the hotel’s loop.

    2024IndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    What Happened to Lily? — Steam game cover

    What Happened to Lily?

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Keyless: Awakening — Steam game cover

    The Keyless: Awakening

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    The Keyless: Awakening is a journey through a dreamlike and surreal world, witnessing bizarre, metaphorical and surreal scenes as you overcome simple challenges.

    2022ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Voyager — Steam game cover

    The Voyager

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    Journey between parallel worlds in a first-person narrative adventure, where each journey reveals an increasingly disturbing threat. Survive, explore, and discover what lies beyond the portal.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kill The Topulus — Steam game cover

    Kill The Topulus

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    Kill The Topulus, shoot with timing and skill to survive! Complete unique challenges, climb the global leaderboards and prove you are the Master of Topulus!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Protocol Five — Steam game cover

    Protocol Five

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    Protocol Filve is a surreal first-person adventure with multiple endings, you will find yourself in a world where some rotten things want to kill you. Some choices along the way drastically and irreversibly change the game, leading to one of the 5 possible endings.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Edd Skeleton Game — Steam game cover

    Edd Skeleton Game

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    Survive Edd Skeleton's "amazing" game, Mock his efforts, and watch him up the ante with scarier creatures, trickier puzzles, and surprises that will keep you on edge. Can you endure his trials and become friends... or will you just keep mocking his incompetence?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Keyless: Beyond the Door — Steam game cover

    The Keyless: Beyond the Door

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    “The Keyless: Beyond the Door” is a linear, dreamlike, and surreal first-person journey. You are trapped in an infinite, ever-changing world, as you search for meaning or a way out that may not exist.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure1.94 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Edd Skeleton VR — Steam game cover

    Edd Skeleton VR

    Single-player alternative to The Keyless: Forbidden Door — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Keyless: Forbidden Door.

    You told Edd Skeleton that his game was a lot of fun and not boring at all, and that it was really scary... that you would never want to stop playing it and that it was the best game of all time... here's another one for VR!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →