Single-player games like Nightmare Frames
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Nightmare Frames, 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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An English Haunting
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
While looking for the existence of the Great Beyond, Professor Patrick Moore, aided by a fake medium, will build a device to see the other side, embark on a search for a millenary artifact, and investigate the most haunted manor of 1907 England.
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The Dark Rites of Arkham
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
A macabre ritual murder puts Arkham PD detectives Jack Foster and Harvey Whitman to the test. As the investigation progresses, they will unveil a disturbing connection between the Salem witch trials of the 17th century and the end of humankind.
- 3
Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
Phil's life has crumbled to dust. The four walls of his room have become his safe haven. He yearns for sleep...but terrible nightmares haunt him. Welcome to a new dimension of horror. Welcome to Midnight Scenes.
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The Supper: New Blood
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
Do you hear the doorbell, Stewie? Your first guest is here...and something tells me they’ll never leave the motel...
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Just Ignore Them
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
One night can feel like a lifetime of pain, suffering and horror to a child...do you have what it takes to survive the night? Play as an 8 year old child who is tormented by monsters in his house. Your choices make his future which lives can be saved or ended.
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The Drifter
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.
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ASYLUM
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horror from the 80s.
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Slender Threads
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
- 9
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
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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Medved Hellraiser
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
You are the only one who can restore order to the world! Arm yourself and stop this madness using your shooting potential.
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Unusual Findings
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
Three friends uncover mysteries in the 1980s. Follow their amazing adventures in a game where your decisions really matter. Be prepared to spin like a record on your incredible journey back to the era of synthesizers, VHS Rental stores, 8 bits games and evil alien conspiracies.
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Primordia
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
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Unavowed
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frames — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Frames.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.