Single-player games like Daylight
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Daylight, 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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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
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.
- 3
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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The Hat Man: Shadow Ward
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
Based on a true story, discover the horror of the Canton insane asylum as you attempt to rescue your daughter. Experience the scariest game of 2014.
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Neverending Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
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CRUELTY
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
"CRUELTY" is a Japanese-made splatter horror. You were in an accident and lost consciousness. The moment you wake up, you find yourself in a nightmare world, one that is not of this Earth. In an abattoir ruled by madness, horrific scenes unfold, and inescapable terror awaits you.
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The Backrooms Project
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
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Don't Be Afraid
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…
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PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Daylight.
PAC-MAN arrives home on his birthday to find the Ghosts have kidnapped PAC-MAN’s family and ruined his party! Off to the rescue, PAC-MAN sets out to Ghost Island!
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Guardians of Middle-earth
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daylight.
A shadow grows over Middle-earth as the greatest armies of the Third Age prepare for the coming battle. Take up arms in the clash over Middle-earth as the most powerful heroes and villains from the greatest fantasy epic of all time.
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Blacklight: Tango Down
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daylight.
In Blacklight: Tango Down, experience the bleeding edge of advanced warfare. Participate in the “NetWar”: a hyper-realistic battlefield letting you fight tomorrow’s conflicts with or against your friends in the gritty Blacklight universe.
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Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daylight.
Race against time and terrorism as a member of the elite counter terrorist team in this all-out first person shooter. Your duty is to hunt down a terrorist overlord carrying a nuclear device before untold disaster is unleashed.
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Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Daylight.
Travel through five mind-bending worlds to discover the ancient secret of Alchemy that will free the trapped souls from evil’s grip…Do you dare enter the Forbidden Lands?