Single-player games like The Crooked Man
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to The Crooked Man, 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 Sand Man
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crooked Man.
“I’ll tell you a scary story. It’s so scary you might not be able to take it. It’s the story of the Sand Man...” This is the second title in the Strange Man series, developed by Uri Games. Unable to sleep and exhausted, Sophie wanders into a town where everything sleeps. That is where the terror begins...
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The Hanged Man
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crooked Man.
"You're a demon child. Someday, you'll be burning in hell for your sins.". This is the fourth and final title in the Strange Man series, developed by Uri Games. Will was running away from home with his mouse buddy Pop, until the two of them wandered into an abandoned building. What secrets lie hidden within?
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The Boogie Man
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crooked Man.
"You are the player, and must chase the Boogie Man. If you catch him, you win! And that's the happy ending, but if you don't..." This is the third title in the Strange Man series. Keith tours a castle with his wife, Helena. Sit back, and enjoy tonight's entertainment: A horrific display of murder.
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Mad Father
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crooked Man.
Witness the tale of a most foolish family. A remake of the classic horror exploration game makes its way to Steam.
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The Witch's House MV
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crooked Man.
A young girl, Viola, is drawn inexorably to a mysterious manor that seems to change behind her back. It is a place of pain, turmoil and death. Plumb its detestable depths and abominable history. Untangle riddles that bar your perilous path. And flee the hellish halls of The Witch’s House.
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Corpse Party
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crooked Man.
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
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Cat in the Box
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crooked Man.
Cat in the Box is a horror adventure game. Help the poor girl explore the mansion and escape from unknown entities that are pursuing her. Use a variety of tools and your wits to overcome any challenges you face. At times, you'll even have to wake yourself from nightmares to survive.
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DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crooked Man.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Crooked Man.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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PARANOID
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Crooked Man.
Paranoid is a horror that tells the story of Patrick who has been living in isolation from the outside world for many years. One day he receives a phone call from his sister, who announces her visit more than a dozen years after she disappeared.
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Misao - 2024 HD Remaster
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crooked Man.
Explore a school plagued by unnatural phenomena in this horror-adventure game revolving around the missing girl Misao. Improving upon 2017's "Definitive Edition" with refreshed graphics and support for HD resolutions, you can now experience the terror in a new form.
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Yume Nikki
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crooked Man.
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
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MiSa
Single-player alternative to The Crooked Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crooked Man.
MiSa is a single-player horror adventure game where the player moves through five locations in the mind of the main character Mark. The goal of the game is to find a way from the world of illusions to reality, successfully distinguishing between them.