Single-player games like Cold Fear™
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Cold Fear™, 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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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
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Dead Space (2008)
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
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Obscure
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
For some time now, Leafmore High School has been the setting for unexplained disappearances. In this survival horror game, you take control of a group of 5 American students. With your friends, you try to unravel the mysterious happenings at this unremarkable-looking school. The night will be long and survival not will not be easy...
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The Thing: Remastered
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing
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Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
Experience the Fear: Set in the terrifying world of Resident Evil.
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DOOM 3
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
A demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars research facility. As one of only a few survivors, you must fight your way to hell and back against a horde of demons in this award-winning horror/action FPS and reimagining of the original DOOM.
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Ground Zero
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
Fight through post-apocalyptic South Korea in this retro survival horror. Uncover the truth behind the devastating meteor impact that left the country in ruins and turned every living organism into a terrifying monstrosity. Fight. Solve puzzles. Upgrade gear. Make every bullet count.
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Dead Effect
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
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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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
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.
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METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
The first and second title in the METAL GEAR series that established the stealth action genre, as well as the basic mechanics of the series.
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Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
From the moment Edward Carnby and Aline Cedrac set foot on Shadow Island, they are confronted by mysterious, evil creatures intent on thwarting their progress to recover 3 ancient tablets believed to hold the secret key to some incredible menacing phenomena. Danger threatens from every corner.