Single-player games like KARMA: The Dark World
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to KARMA: The Dark World, 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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Prove You're Human
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with KARMA: The Dark World.
An AI dares to dream she is human. You've been hired to put her in her place.
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Mango
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with KARMA: The Dark World.
A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.
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RETRIEVAL
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with KARMA: The Dark World.
RETRIEVAL is a first-person psychological horror game where you explore a looping house, collect scattered memory fragments, and search extracted keywords in an old computer terminal to uncover a tragic truth.
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War Fantasy
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with KARMA: The Dark World.
The Stanley Parable with a loaded rifle. A psychological horror FPS where a demented commanding officer controls your every move, and the line between war simulation and real war dissolves into impossible, stunning spaces. You are not a soldier. You are being made into one.
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Mother Zina
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with KARMA: The Dark World.
You’re a journalist who came to Russia for a report. After renting an apartment from Zinaida Petrovna, you quickly realize she’s hiding something - and this place isn’t meant for random tenants. To get out, you’ll have to dig into her past - and keep your sanity.
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One-Eyed Likho
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with KARMA: The Dark World.
One-Eyed Likho is a grim first-person horror adventure set in a world inspired by a dark, Slavic fairy tale. Explore an unsettling and twisted land set in 19th-century Russia in your endeavor to escape your own evil fate.
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Backmooms
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with KARMA: The Dark World.
You’ve wandered into a strange dimension while shopping.A mysterious monster is chasing you.You must escape."Backmooms" is a first-person adventure game.
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SLEEP AWAKE
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with KARMA: The Dark World.
In the last known city on Earth, people are disappearing in their sleep. Those who remain exist in a crisis of reckless experiments to keep awake. From Cory Davis (Spec Ops: The Line) and Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails), SLEEP AWAKE blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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>observer_
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with KARMA: The Dark World.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
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Twin Peaks VR
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with KARMA: The Dark World.
Twin Peaks VR brings people into the world of Twin Peaks using the immersive technology of VR. Based on the iconic television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, players will be able to experience several locations from the show including the Red Room, Glastonbury Grove, Sheriff's Department, Glass Box Observation and more.
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MOTHERED - A ROLE-PLAYING HORROR GAME
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with KARMA: The Dark World.
An immersive first-person horror adventure where you play the role of LIANA - a young girl who arrives home after major surgery and is met with a strange mannequin claiming to be her mother.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to KARMA: The Dark World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with KARMA: The Dark World.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.