Single-player games like Thirty Minute Nightmare
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Thirty Minute Nightmare, 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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Dracula Awakens
Single-player alternative to Thirty Minute Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.
Kill monsters using your camera and solve puzzles as you try to survive Dracula himself in his castle in this retro-style survival horror game.
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Spectral Trail
Single-player alternative to Thirty Minute Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.
In this pseudo-3D action FPS, try to survive a maze full of ghosts in your search for the Seven Rings of Xeoncor.
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EBOLA VILLAGE
Single-player alternative to Thirty Minute Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.
EBOLA VILLAGE - this is a classic survival horror game from the 90s with a focus on atmosphere and player immersion. Solve puzzles, follow the story carefully and use various weapons in a brutal fight for survival. Danger lurks at every turn.
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Under: Depths of Fear
Single-player alternative to Thirty Minute Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.
Enter the mind of traumatized WW1 veteran Alexander Dockter and experience the terrorizing nightmare of trying to escape a sinking ocean liner while being haunted by the most terrifying entities you’ve ever come across.
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Nightmare of Decay
Single-player alternative to Thirty Minute Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.
A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.
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Dementium: The Ward
Single-player alternative to Thirty Minute Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.
Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.
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Murder House
Single-player alternative to Thirty Minute Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.
A local news team breaks into an abandoned house to chase a salacious ghost story... until a MANIAC chases them! ...VHS era 80's slasher. PS1 style survival horror!
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Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi
Single-player alternative to Thirty Minute Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.
It is a misty evening in the year of our lord 1912. The Pattersons, a poor but proud aristocratic family of the British nobility, and some of their closest friends, arrive at the castle Malachi residence of a wealthy Romanian Count.
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Mr. Walker's Basement
Single-player alternative to Thirty Minute Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.
Will you be able to escape the horrors that unfold under your neighbor's home? This atmospheric point-and-click survival horror game with elements of mystery and story-rich scares will leave you DYING to uncover the truth. Beware the wax figures that lurk in the basement....
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Liminal Space
Single-player alternative to Thirty Minute Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Thirty Minute Nightmare.
Welcome to Liminal Space. We have been expecting you. Choose your map and try to escape. It's up to you if you want monsters chasing you or if you want a peaceful experience with no threats. With an unsettling soundtrack and fun graphic options, you'll have a good time for a cheap price.