Single-player games like Elevator Operator: System Residue
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Elevator Operator: System Residue, 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 Lightkeeper Is Gone
Single-player alternative to Elevator Operator: System Residue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Elevator Operator: System Residue.
The Lightkeeper Is Gone is a retro-styled horror adventure set in the 1930's on a lone island. Take on the job of keeping the lighthouse while discovering the story of those that came before.
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Dreadwoods Gatekeeper
Single-player alternative to Elevator Operator: System Residue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Elevator Operator: System Residue.
Become a gatekeeper at an isolated outpost. Perform daily duties, inspect trading wagons, patrol the grounds, and maintain the weathered station as you begin to discover something is terribly wrong with this place.
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Hong Kong Horror Incident: Yik Sin House
Single-player alternative to Elevator Operator: System Residue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Elevator Operator: System Residue.
The last food delivery order leads you into a residential building you can never leave. You thought it was just an ordinary job, but in the familiar Yik Sin House, you gradually fall into an inescapable nightmare.
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DRINK HUMAN BEANS
Single-player alternative to Elevator Operator: System Residue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Elevator Operator: System Residue.
You will created to be tortured by a sentient job application. You will learn to live, laugh, love until the walls bleed. You will become a succulent beverage.
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Decommission Protocol
Single-player alternative to Elevator Operator: System Residue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Elevator Operator: System Residue.
Edith station has been abandoned for a year - an unusually long time to sit derelict. You are a space station engineer sent up to decommission the station in a manual service elevator with the ability to stop between floors. Will you discover the truth or simply follow protocol?
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No, I'm not a Human
Single-player alternative to Elevator Operator: System Residue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Elevator Operator: System Residue.
WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
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THRESHOLD
Single-player alternative to Elevator Operator: System Residue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Elevator Operator: System Residue.
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
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Pieces of me
Single-player alternative to Elevator Operator: System Residue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Elevator Operator: System Residue.
“Pieces of Me” is not a classic horror game with jump scares, but a psychological thriller-drama in the walking simulator genre. It is a spin-off of “September 7th”