Single-player games like Dead of Darkness
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Dead of Darkness, 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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Lamentum
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead of Darkness.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Fear The Timeloop
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead of Darkness.
Sheriff James Cooper is slowly bleeding to death in an unfamiliar hospital. But the moment his life ends, everything starts over. He has fifteen minutes to break this endless cycle, uncover the truth, and find a way out before it's too late.
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Viviette
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead of Darkness.
Exploration, puzzles and a touch of classic horror awaits you! Uncover the secrets and mysteries of Neuville's Mansion. Test your logic against diverse puzzles, locate and use a variety of items, and don't lose your sense of direction, as navigation itself becomes an obstacle in your path!
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You Will Die Here Tonight
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead of Darkness.
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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Flesh Made Fear
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead of Darkness.
Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.
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Among Ashes
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead of Darkness.
Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead of Darkness.
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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Terror At Oakheart
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead of Darkness.
The renowned slasher horror films of the 1980s and 1990s serve as a source of inspiration for Terror at Oakheart. The community of Oakheart has been terrorized by Teddy, a masked serial killer. As the body count rises, you discover there is more going on here than just a man in a mask.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead of Darkness.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead of Darkness.
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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Resident Evil 2
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead of Darkness.
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead of Darkness.
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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Resident Evil 3
Single-player alternative to Dead of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead of Darkness.
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.