Single-player games like Nightmare
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Nightmare, 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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Five Nights at Freddy's
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nightmare.
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
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Cold House
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare.
The protagonist gets into a car accident and is forced to take shelter from the cold in an abandoned house, waiting for warmer temperatures, where it will soon turn out that he is not alone at all..
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Agonize
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare.
Once a mad scientist's lab, now an abandoned manor haunted by miscreations. Work as a 1-4 player team in this online co-op, psychological horror game and discover what lurks within. Find a cure before it's too late...
- 4
Project Unknown
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare.
An online co-op horror game featuring unique playable characters and RPG mechanics. Exorcise ghosts using your special abilities and tools while surviving the supernatural onslaught
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Fear Therapy
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nightmare.
Fear Therapy, is a multiplayer(1-4) and single player psychological horror game.Try to complete the quests and leave the horror house before it is too late! Satan getting angrier every second and nothing holding it back.
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SUFFOCATE
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare.
《SUFFOCATE》is a realistic 3D first-person survival horror game. The plot revolves around family relationships, cult, and the greed that permeates human nature. The game doesn't shy away from violence, gore, and faith in this one-of-a-kind survival horror experience, Taiwanese style.
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Pacify
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare.
An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare.
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.