Single-player games like Nightmare of Decay
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Nightmare of Decay, 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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EBOLA VILLAGE
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare of Decay.
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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Slipgate
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare of Decay.
Explore the gloomy rooms of a sci-fi base as a doomed marine, the sole survivor of the portal experiment. Save humanity as you did in the 90s with your trusty shotgun, make your way through ominous corridors inhabited by the shadows of sinners and evil spirits.
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Eternal Evil
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare of Decay.
A small town is being taken over by ghouls. Solve puzzles, carefully read notes and use various weapons against horrific and evolving enemies to uncover what is behind this gruesome event. Eternal Evil is an old-school survival-horror game.
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Night At the Gates of Hell
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nightmare of Decay.
From the sick mind behind Bloodwash, Jordan King, comes his latest experiment in terror. Inspired by the Italian zombie flicks from Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei, Night of the Gates of Hell promises to be a blood dripping, neon soaked, flesh rotting experience.
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The Last Patient
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare of Decay.
"Last patient" is a short first-person horror shooter with a frightening atmosphere.
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Resident Evil Village
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nightmare of Decay.
Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.
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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare of Decay.
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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ZOMBI
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmare of Decay.
London is falling. Are you prepared? The Last Blight is upon us. It was foretold. For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded London in a fog of death. Big Ben tolls as thousands of unprepared die, or worse, are infected by a sickness more gruesome than death.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmare of Decay.
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 Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmare of Decay.
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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Resident Evil 2
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nightmare of Decay.
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
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AMNESIA
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightmare of Decay.
After a series of events now shrouded in mystery, our protagonist - a young man - fell into a coma, losing all recollection of the person he used to be. He is given a clean slate. All that’s left to do now is to carefully and thoroughly investigate every facet of your former self.
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmare of Decay.
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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Tormented Souls
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmare of Decay.
Classic survival horror is back! Inspired by the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark series, Tormented Souls modernises with a fresh twist on the fixed perspective adventure - as Caroline Walker investigates the mysterious disappearance of twin girls in a terrifying mansion-turned-hospital.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmare of Decay.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Reignfall
Single-player alternative to Nightmare of Decay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare of Decay.
Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?