Single-player games like Dark Hours
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Dark Hours, 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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Dark Hours: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Dark Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.
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Midnight Heist
Single-player alternative to Dark Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Go on heists through Midnight City alone or with up to four players to fulfill tasks as a hacker for various organizations. Improve your reputation, earn money, and uncover the secrets of shady companies all while being hunted by terrifying entities.
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Murky Divers
Single-player alternative to Dark Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
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PARANOIA PLACE
Single-player alternative to Dark Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Together or alone, you will need to solve puzzles, find items and run from the bloodthirsty demonic killer.
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Emissary Zero
Single-player alternative to Dark Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dark Hours.
Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.
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Paranormal Cleanup
Single-player alternative to Dark Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Clock in for the worst cleaning shift of your life: Unclog nasty toilets and scrub ectoplasm in this 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Get the job done and don't get caught by the entities hunting you!
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Backrooms Society
Single-player alternative to Dark Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Backrooms Society is a 1-8 player co-op horror game. Make your way through unique levels of the backrooms while trying to survive and avoid mysterious entities. Scavenge each level for gear and resources, bring it back to The Hub where you can sell valuables and buy/craft new gear.
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PANICORE
Single-player alternative to Dark Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.
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PAYDAY 2
Single-player alternative to Dark Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
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Phasmophobia
Single-player alternative to Dark Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
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R.E.P.O.
Single-player alternative to Dark Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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Hacktag
Single-player alternative to Dark Hours — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Hacktag is a fast-paced two-player co-op stealth-game with unique asymmetric gameplay. Play as the stealth Agent in the field or as the virtually-infiltrated Hacker and work together to carry out espionage missions where nothing goes as expected!