Single-player games like The Fan
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Fan, 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
- 1
Cats With Standards
Single-player alternative to The Fan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Fan.
Horror Visual Novel where Cats claw through filth for bones and whisper lies to mirrors. Find the Hidden-Objects, obey, smile, and repeat until the lines between rule and ruin blur, and you’re left meowing into the void.
- 2
Yellowcreek Stories - The Cabin Watcher
Single-player alternative to The Fan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Fan.
A masked killer hunts you in the dark. Manage noise and light, hide quickly, and survive this intense first-person stealth horror experience inspired by classic 80s slasher films.
- 3
Scotophobia
Single-player alternative to The Fan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Fan.
Scotophobia is a psychological horror in which you’re your accommodation is rapidly changing ceasing to belong to you. Will you be able to uphold your abode, reveal the origin of the mysterious guests, keep sanity, and… survive?
- 4
Red Balloon
Single-player alternative to The Fan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Fan.
A first-person psychological horror experience. Explore, solve puzzles, and make decisions as you descend through 66 levels to save your little brother. How far are you willing to descend for him?
- 5
KARJALA
Single-player alternative to The Fan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Fan.
A hot-tempered private of the Soviet army is sent through a portal to the Backrooms behind a fight with an officer, he needs to find a missing scientists. Monsters are hunting him, and the offended commander is trying to trap him. Will the soldier be able to survive and return?
- 6
The Shade
Single-player alternative to The Fan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Fan.
A first-person psychological horror set in rural Finland, where isolation and unsettling encounters slowly turn your housekeeping job into something far more disturbing.
- 7
Graveyard Cabin
Single-player alternative to The Fan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Fan.
An FMV anomaly horror game. You are a night guard at a desolate graveyard. Monitor the cameras, spot the unnatural, and survive.
- 8
Dracula: Crimson Apostle
Single-player alternative to The Fan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Fan.
In this horror escape room, a prequel to the novel Dracula, you play as Renfield. Solve puzzles, survive the trials of the enigmatic Countess Dolingen of Gratz, and escape the horrors that haunt you — both outside and within your mind. Is your fate written in blood?
- 9
Heavy Rain
Single-player alternative to The Fan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Fan.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.