Single-player games like Dark Forest: The Horror
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dark Forest: The Horror, 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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Dark Shadows
Single-player alternative to Dark Forest: The Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.
Elena killed Jason to protect her friend but unleashed a terrifying curse. Now Dark Shadow is back for revenge. Survive, face your fears, and don’t scream—if you do, it all starts over!
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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Dark Forest: The Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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Uventa
Single-player alternative to Dark Forest: The Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.
The tragic fate brings you, a simple night guard, to an abandoned school. Plunge into a horrifying story and get to the bottom of the secret that this spectre of the long-gone Soviet era has in store.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Dark Forest: The Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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CASE: Animatronics
Single-player alternative to Dark Forest: The Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.
CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror on PC. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?
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Never Again
Single-player alternative to Dark Forest: The Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.
Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Dark Forest: The Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to Dark Forest: The Horror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.