Single-player games like The Shadelight
Below are 7 single-player Steam games similar to The Shadelight, 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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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to The Shadelight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Shadelight.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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Pine Harbor
Single-player alternative to The Shadelight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Shadelight.
Pine Harbor was a small fishing town on the shores of the North Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by cliffs and dense pine forests, shrouded in thick fog. But everything changed as a result of a technological disaster. Explore the town, help its residents, and delve into the depths of the dark forests.
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Apsulov: End of Gods
Single-player alternative to The Shadelight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Shadelight.
In this future viking horror you awake in a sanctuary of steel and concrete, built to research and exploit the worlds of Yggdrasil, and to house an artifact, buried in the earth aeons ago.First person with a futuristic Norse mythology story. Horror adventure in the realms of Yggdrasil.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to The Shadelight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Shadelight.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Single-player alternative to The Shadelight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Shadelight.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to The Shadelight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Shadelight.
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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Manhunt
Single-player alternative to The Shadelight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Shadelight.
You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.