Single-player games like Bad Dream: Stories
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Bad Dream: Stories, 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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Bad Dream: Coma
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
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Bad Dream: Fever
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
The world is covered in strange ink, an unknown plague has gathered its cruel harvest. The city seems to be completely empty and dead, but in its every corner there are manifestations of fear, sorrow, loneliness and suffering.
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Daymare Town
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
Daymare Town is a hand-drawn puzzle adventure game. You find yourself in a heart of a strange city populated by peculiar Metamorph creatures. This town is full of nooks and crannies, puzzles, secrets and items to collect to help you along the way. Can you escape the nightmare of a day?
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Lucid Dream Adventure
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
Lucid Dream is the story of little Lucy, who goes on an adventure into the world of dreams with the mission to save her mother.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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Rusty Lake Hotel
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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Slender Threads
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
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.
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Fran Bow
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
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Darkness Under My Bed
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
Wander through intricate maze under the bed, and discover the secrets hidden in the long, dark tunnels. Document the existence of monsters. Retrieve the stolen treasures and memories.
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Game For Anna
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
Hello Anna. I made a game for you. We can play together as we used to.
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Faded Stories: Greenberg
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
Here in the city of Greenberg time is meaningless, and space is infinite. The city has endless history and yet... The whole place is fading away.
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Bad Dream: Purgatory
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
Explore a hauntingly surreal landscape filled with unused characters from a cancelled project in Bad Dream: Purgatory. Will you give them purpose, or will they be doomed to suffer?
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Faded Stories: Full Moon
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
Unburied and forgotten undead gather in the city center, while the citizens of Greenberg go about their day-to-day lives.
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Bad Dream: Afterlife
Single-player alternative to Bad Dream: Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Dream: Stories.
You're back, but the entire dream is empty. All residents have evacuated, and the reason is you. The walls are covered with a number of hurtful messages, but the most common one is - "You can keep the whole city to yourself, but DON'T FOLLOW US, YOU MONSTER!"