Single-player games like The Lift
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Lift, 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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Outlast
Single-player alternative to The Lift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lift.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to The Lift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lift.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to The Lift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lift.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
- 4
Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to The Lift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lift.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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Stairs
Single-player alternative to The Lift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lift.
STAIRS is a first-person atmospheric psychological horror game, inspired by real-life events, that takes players through the stories of three missing people as seen through the eyes of journalist Christopher Adams. Start preparing yourself now, for to descend down these steps is to descend into madness...
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The Evil Within 2
Single-player alternative to The Lift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lift.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to The Lift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lift.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Ad Infinitum
Single-player alternative to The Lift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lift.
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
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Project X
Single-player alternative to The Lift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lift.
Two teenagers were disappeared in the vicinity of the Grackham National Park. At night a roar is heard from the forest. Nearby, a group of archaeologists finds a cave and skull of an unknown creature.