Single-player games like The Night The Carsons Disappeared
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Night The Carsons Disappeared, 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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Organ Quarter
Single-player alternative to The Night The Carsons Disappeared — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Night The Carsons Disappeared.
Organ Quarter is a VR survival horror game built from the ground-up for hand-tracked virtual reality. Explore labyrinthine environments, engage in tense combat, carefully manage your resources and solve horrifying puzzles in this homage to the slow, methodical survival horror experiences of the '90s
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The Visitor
Single-player alternative to The Night The Carsons Disappeared — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Night The Carsons Disappeared.
The Visitor is a VR horror experience about an unexpected visitor calling to your door in the middle of the night. The game relies heavily on atmosphere, utilizing a dark environment to make the player both as nervous and uncomfortable as possible.
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Horror House
Single-player alternative to The Night The Carsons Disappeared — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Night The Carsons Disappeared.
Your objective is to cleanse the house of 6 body parts. Armed with your flashlight and crucifix, you search for these body parts while evading and cleansing the unholy spirits of the house. The more body parts you cleanse, the angrier the spirits get.
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A Chair in a Room : Greenwater
Single-player alternative to The Night The Carsons Disappeared — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Night The Carsons Disappeared.
Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the sinister Greenwater Institute, known only as Patient No.
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Duck Season
Single-player alternative to The Night The Carsons Disappeared — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Night The Carsons Disappeared.
The game of your dreams just dropped, DUCK SEASON, a hunter with ridiculous graphics. Luckily, it's summer vacation and Mom just surprised you with a one day rental of it! Unfortunately, as you binge play it becomes apparent that all is not right with Duck Season...
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theBlu
Single-player alternative to The Night The Carsons Disappeared — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Night The Carsons Disappeared.
Experience the wonder and majesty of the ocean through a series of habitats and come face to face with some of the most awe inspiring species on the planet.
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Clamb
Single-player alternative to The Night The Carsons Disappeared — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Night The Carsons Disappeared.
A punishing VR climbing game. Climb a surreal mountain with nothing but a hammer.
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Richie's Plank Experience
Single-player alternative to The Night The Carsons Disappeared — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Night The Carsons Disappeared.
You're on a plank, 80 stories high. Knees shaky, palms sweaty. You have a choice. Do you walk or do you freeze? Richie's Plank is the only VR experience that lets you clone any real-world plank into the virtual world for 2X the immersion.