Single-player games like The Clown's Forest
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Clown's Forest, 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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The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows
Single-player alternative to The Clown's Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
Michael Longhurst had just survived a terrible ordeal at Hartown Park. Two months later, he returns with his partner, Ethan. As they try and uncover the cursed history of the Longhurst Family.
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Never Forgotten
Single-player alternative to The Clown's Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
A uniquely stylised survival-horror adventure game. Explore a dying world, averting enemies, managing your resources, and solving puzzles.
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You Will Die Here Tonight
Single-player alternative to The Clown's Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
Immerse yourself in retro top-down visuals as you face the horrors of Breckenridge Hall through intense first-person combat. Scavenge, solve puzzles, and upgrade your gear. Do whatever it takes to survive—but remember: You Will Die Here Tonight.
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to The Clown's Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Clown's Forest.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Dead of Darkness
Single-player alternative to The Clown's Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
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The Bunny Graveyard
Single-player alternative to The Clown's Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
Skye and her Handy Pals are looking for a new pal to help them out on her lovely lil' garden! Think you're up for the job, partner?
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Lamentum
Single-player alternative to The Clown's Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to The Clown's Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.