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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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.
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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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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
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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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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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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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daylight.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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DreadOut
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Daylight.
DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.
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Enter The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Daylight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Daylight.
An indie psychological horror experience about surviving infinity. Navigate an endless expanse of rooms, ascend through various levels, gather items and artifacts, avoid going insane, evade corrupted entities, and see just how deep the realm known as The Backrooms goes.
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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?