Single-player games like Gloomwood
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Gloomwood, 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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Blood West
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloomwood.
Weird west legends meet eldritch horror in BLOOD WEST, an immersive stealth FPS. Become the Undead Gunslinger, doomed to roam the barren lands until he manages to purge their curse, freeing his soul. 3 varied scenarios, perk-based character progression, and 20+ hours of gameplay await you!
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gloomwood.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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Thief
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gloomwood.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloomwood.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Metro Exodus
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gloomwood.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
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Fallen Aces
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloomwood.
The A.C.E.S. Once the watchful guardians of Switchblade City - are being taken down, one by one. Now it's up to one man, with two fists, to get to the bottom of it all. Fallen Aces is a crime noir FPS that plays right out of the '90s and looks like it's right outta the comics.
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Metro: Last Light Redux
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gloomwood.
It is the year 2034. Beneath the ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow, in the tunnels of the Metro, the remnants of mankind are besieged by deadly threats from outside – and within. Mutants stalk the catacombs beneath the desolate surface, and hunt amidst the poisoned skies above.
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Project Silverfish
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloomwood.
Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gloomwood.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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System Shock® 2 (1999)
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gloomwood.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gloomwood.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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DUSK
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloomwood.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
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Redneck Rampage
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gloomwood.
Well, we crash-landed that UFO in the desert and Bubba says he wants to go home. Heck, I don't blame him 'cause there ain't no place like Hickston. But according to my map, we're gonna have to blast our way through jack o' lope farms and a riverboat as well as a brothel 'fore we get home again.
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AMID EVIL
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloomwood.
A retro FPS for the ages! Once branded a HERETIC. Now YOU have been chosen as our champion! Reclaim our sacred weapons. Take back our ancient lands. If you can stand... AMID EVIL.
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Rise of the Triad
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gloomwood.
Apogee Software and Interceptor Entertainment proudly present the rebirth of the cult-classic first-person shooter, “Rise of the Triad”. Bigger, better and more ludicrous than ever before.
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METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Single-player alternative to Gloomwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gloomwood.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.