Single-player games like Despair: Blood Curse
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Despair: Blood Curse, 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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深空七号 Deep Space 7
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
This is an independent action shooting game with a third person horror atmosphere. Facing the terrifying monsters in the space station, you must overcome the shortage of supplies, solve numerous mysteries, and successfully escape danger
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Connection: The Nightmare Within
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
Inspired by the classics such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Alone In the Dark: Detective Stone investigates a shadow conspiracy. Explore atmospheric levels, fight monsters, and solve puzzles. Unravel a story of twists and turns. Choose classic fixed camera, or over-the-shoulder.
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Rabbit Hole
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
An ancient evil has descended upon the rural town of Rabbit Hole. Now Shaun Turner not only has to untangle a twisted web of supernatural events and mysteries to save his family but also escape from the hellish remains of his hometown.
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Ground Zero
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
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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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
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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Selene's Unbearable Night
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
A third person survival horror game. Search for key objects, solve puzzles and face dangers in order to escape. Inspired by the old survival horror, with two playable characters and modern mechanics delve into the narrative story of Selene's Unbearable night.
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PATHOGEN X
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
An immersive, first-person survival shooter where you step into the boots of Special Agent Aiden Clark. Dive deep into a hazardous underground laboratory, tasked with the perilous mission of neutralizing a biological menace and securing a pathogen sample.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
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 Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
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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BloodRayne (Legacy)
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Despair: Blood Curse.
In the years between the World Wars, Agent BloodRayne works as a killing machine for The Brimstone Society--a top secret fraternity that hunts down and destroys supernatural threats. Starring heroine Rayne, this original action horror game unleashed the red headed dhampir on the world.