Single-player games like BLACKOUT
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to BLACKOUT, 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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to BLACKOUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BLACKOUT.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Dead of Darkness
Single-player alternative to BLACKOUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BLACKOUT.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to BLACKOUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BLACKOUT.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to BLACKOUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BLACKOUT.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to BLACKOUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BLACKOUT.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Lamentum
Single-player alternative to BLACKOUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BLACKOUT.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to BLACKOUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BLACKOUT.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to BLACKOUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BLACKOUT.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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Cursed House
Single-player alternative to BLACKOUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BLACKOUT.
In the process of searching for real estate, he comes across a lucrative offer - a 2-storey house with a basement and an attic for only $295,000. After much hesitation, he contacts the seller and agrees to the deal. But what happened on the next day after the move, he was shocked.