Single-player games like The Darkest Island
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Darkest Island, 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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Beyond Silence
Single-player alternative to The Darkest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
Beyond Silence is a first-person psychological horror where you play as James, a former surgeon who returns to the house of his past. The dark rooms, creaking floors, and forgotten notes hide the horrors he himself had a hand in. But the past won't let him go and it speaks to him through the silence
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ASZG Project Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to The Darkest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
ASZG is a psychological horror experience, where you must survive against creatures generated by the harmful DK-19 virus. Explore and survive in a completely devastated apocalyptic environment. The Director's Cut is an atypical version of the original game, a peculiar and highly contested edit.
- 3
The Hollow Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to The Darkest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
The Hollow Lighthouse is a first-person survival horror experience set on a mysterious, fog-covered island in the Black Sea. Fix the broken lighthouse, uncover disturbing secrets, and survive what roams in the dark. You were sent to repair the light. But something is watching you.
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TV Head: Eight Pages
Single-player alternative to The Darkest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
You find yourself all alone in the middle of a dark forest. You have no weapons and no place to wait for help. The dim flashlight that lights the way is your only friend. Your goal is to explore the location to find eight pages and leave this frightening place.
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The Backrooms Multiplayer
Single-player alternative to The Darkest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
You and your friends have found a camera with a footage in it. For some reason you can't rewind the video, and as soon as you try winding it forward you all find yourself in the Backrooms. Together figure out whats in the footage and try to ESCAPE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!
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JongRo 3_Street
Single-player alternative to The Darkest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Darkest Island.
"In the year 2024, South Korea has become a wasteland due to the Epsilon virus. South Korea is full of infected people. In this desolate landscape, a man hears a rumor about a path to salvation at Jongno 3-ga Station and decides to head there."
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SCP
Single-player alternative to The Darkest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
Explore, craft, and survive in a post-apocalyptic world where SCP anomalies roam freely. Brace yourself for nightly assaults as SCP-049's twisted creations close in.
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Zombie Claus
Single-player alternative to The Darkest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkest Island.
You find yourself in a big empty house. Around the Christmas lights, but no friends, no family, and only bad Santa. Solve the mystery of the protagonist.
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Pop and Chicks
Single-player alternative to The Darkest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Darkest Island.
Help Pop the hen rescue her chicks. Take one move at a time, and be careful where you're going.