Single-player games like Afterdream
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Afterdream, 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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DISTRAINT 2
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
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Never Ending Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Life has been tough for you after the tragic incident with your parents. Your way of coping has been through reliving all the good memories with them, but all the memories had a dark turn this time... will you be able to figure out why?
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NIGHTSLINK
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.
- 4
Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
A story of a father and a daughter. Explore a suburban street trapped in a single, repeating night. Follow dream sequences, collect missing sins, and make choices that shape what happens next. No jumpscares. No monsters. This isn’t a haunting. This is devotion.
- 6
What Happened to Lily?
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
- 8
Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness puts your sanity to the test, challenging you to escape a labyrinth of nightmares and torment. Test your mind against a slow burn of puzzles, light survival mechanics, and methodical action.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Afterdream.
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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The Darkside Detective
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
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DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
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Silence of the Sleep
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
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Heal
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
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Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.
- 15
Without a Dawn
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Afterdream.
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.