Single-player games like Cold Fear™
Below are 15 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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Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
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Zombie Army Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
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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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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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The Evil Within 2
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cold Fear™.
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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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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The Thing from Nowhere
Single-player alternative to Cold Fear™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".
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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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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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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.