Single-player games like Heliophobia
Below are 12 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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heliophobia.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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Out of Sight
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heliophobia.
You’re Sophie, a young blind girl who sees through her teddy bear’s eyes. Escape your captors and uncover the evil history of the dark mansion you desperately seek to escape in this unique, atmospheric horror puzzle/adventure game.
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heliophobia.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters is a Korean survival horror-adventure. Venture from your deserted school to survive the horrors of the night. Explore the surrounding Sehwa district and uncover the shadow realm's dark secrets. Use everything at your disposal to avoid a demoness hellbent on killing you!
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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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Tormenture
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Tormenture is a psychological horror game where you play as a child trapped in a cursed 8-bit game with a dark secret. To survive, you must find four relics and solve reality-blurring puzzles. But beware—some creatures may escape the game and haunt you in the real world. A game within a game.
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The Shattering
Single-player alternative to Heliophobia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heliophobia.
The Shattering is a first-person, story-driven, psychological thriller. Its defining features are the dynamic environments, beautiful aesthetic and intriguing story. The gameplay is meant to submerge you in the mind of John, as you take each step forward into the twisted mystery of what happened.
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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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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.