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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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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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Ad Infinitum
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nightmare.
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
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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.
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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nightmare.
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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Visage
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nightmare.
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.