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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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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Satellite Odyssey: Jupiter
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
🪳🤖 Rogue machines, mutant insects, and jazz echoing through deep space 🎷🎶 A stylish blend of survival horror and noir detective mystery wrapped in a decopunk aesthetic. Beautifully unsettling.
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Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
(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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From Hell
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
From Hell is a third-person action survival horror. Explore an ancient manor in the late 1960s, fight ghouls and all kinds of monsters from the mythical underworld. Survive, craft items, solve puzzles and unlock secrets in the hunt for secret of your missing old friend.
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Angel Roulette
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
Survival Escape Third-Person Shooter. Featuring a female protagonist, appearance customization system, body customization, backpack system, workbench & skill system, base building, and a variety of weapons with attachment modifications.
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Dead Space (2008)
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
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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Resident Evil 3
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Despair: Blood Curse.
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Despair: Blood Curse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
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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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.