Single-player games like Dayscream
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Dayscream, 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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Resident Fear 2
Single-player alternative to Dayscream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dayscream.
Take part in heart-stopping first-person action with waves of ravenous zombies. Use your weapons wisely, keep your ammo count at bay, and stay focused—all decisions are literally matters of life and death.
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Saint of Chains
Single-player alternative to Dayscream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dayscream.
Psychological single-player first-person horror. Explore dark environments, fight with melee and guns, and solve puzzles in this retro 2000s-inspired nightmare where the truth is more terrifying than the monsters.
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MEATHOOK
Single-player alternative to Dayscream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dayscream.
Survival horror FPS with a physics-driven weapon system. You are bound to a sinister conveyor mechanism. Reach for weapons and items, navigate labyrinthine tunnels, and blast your path to worthiness!
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Basement of Hellish
Single-player alternative to Dayscream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dayscream.
Basement of Hellish is a survival horror game with zombies in 1st person. Survive and struggle to find a way out in this horror game with tense and dark atmosphere.
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Sometimes They Come Back
Single-player alternative to Dayscream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dayscream.
Clear up the mysteries and horrors of the ominous Freedom Towers and try to salvage your life. Investigate, talk with the other residents to reveal their secrets, solve puzzles, cry, suffer... and try to play through the game — before the game plays through you.
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HORROR TALES: The Beggar
Single-player alternative to Dayscream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dayscream.
Control space-time to fight an evil monster in this terror and science fiction journey set in a shattered but beautiful world. Bend physics, the sky and the earth itself in engaging boss-fight encounters with the full power of Unreal Engine 5 and Nvidia DLSS.
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MUZY
Single-player alternative to Dayscream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dayscream.
Explore the mystery behind a once-loved and hugely popular children's toy, also known as MUZY, in this terrifying horror adventure game. Several reports detail frightening incidents connected to accidents. Your job is to solve the puzzles and find the cause of these unsettling occurrences.
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Dementium: The Ward
Single-player alternative to Dayscream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dayscream.
Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.
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Tower of Scherbenmark
Single-player alternative to Dayscream — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A turn-based ASCII roguelike RPG set in the shattered dark-fantasy realm of Scherbenmark. Listen for monsters beyond your sight, survive shifting floors, and follow the echoes left by your missing sister Mara into an ancient rift.
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Scherbenmark: The Old Mine
Single-player alternative to Dayscream — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.