Single-player games like Afterdream
Below are 13 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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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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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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Luto
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
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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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Lucid Dream Adventure
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
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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Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
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Decarnation
Single-player alternative to Afterdream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Where do you run to when your demons reside within you? Decarnation is a pixel art adventure/action puzzle game with a horrific story inspired by some of the most influential films and novels in the genre. Dive into a breathtaking thriller where nightmares and dreams intertwine…
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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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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.
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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.