Single-player games like Heliophobia
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Heliophobia, 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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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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CONTROL Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Heliophobia.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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DreadOut 2
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
A third-person horror adventure that draws inspiration from Indonesian urban legend. Play as Linda, a high school student with the ability to sense and see ghosts. This spine-chilling sequel expands on the cult hit original, making DreadOut 2 another terrifying addition to the horror genre.
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Fear the Spotlight
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…
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YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
As long as I have dreams in my heart, I can never escape. I can never awaken from my dreams. Maybe if I follow the dream just past this doorway, then someday I can wake up again...
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
The VR Edition of the critically acclaimed BAFTA award-winning Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness.
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Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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The Crow's Eye
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heliophobia.
In an abandoned medical university, test your intellectual might as you unravel a 20-year-old mystery in this depraved first-person puzzle adventure, doing what it takes to escape your fate as a macabre scientist's human experiment. The ends justify the means in The Crow’s Eye.
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AMNESIA
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heliophobia.
After a series of events now shrouded in mystery, our protagonist - a young man - fell into a coma, losing all recollection of the person he used to be. He is given a clean slate. All that’s left to do now is to carefully and thoroughly investigate every facet of your former self.
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Noir Syndrome
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heliophobia.
Noir Syndrome is a procedurally generated Detective Murder-Mystery with a new story every time! Featuring slick pixel art animations and a jazzy soundtrack, the player is thrown right in to a highly stylized vision of film noir.
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Defragmented
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Defragmented is a lightning-fast cyberpunk action RPG with a pulsing synth soundtrack. Welcome to Entropolis – New World, Bad Blood.
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Ad Infernum
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Stranded at an abandoned gas station in the middle of the desert. Losing your grip on reality. Dark rituals. Demonic pursuers. No escape.