Single-player games like The Damned City
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Damned City, 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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Survival & Horror: Hangman's Rope
Single-player alternative to The Damned City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Damned City.
Are you ready to uncover the secret of the cursed town? Immerse yourself in the ambiance of the Wild West and its mysterious events, and discover the truth about what lurks on the grim streets of this town.
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Eternal Evil
Single-player alternative to The Damned City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Damned City.
A small town is being taken over by ghouls. Solve puzzles, carefully read notes and use various weapons against horrific and evolving enemies to uncover what is behind this gruesome event. Eternal Evil is an old-school survival-horror game.
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Resident Evil Village
Single-player alternative to The Damned City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Damned City.
Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to The Damned City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Damned City.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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Dead Beacon
Single-player alternative to The Damned City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Damned City.
Dead Beacon is a first-person survival horror inspired by late 1990s games and taking place in the Beacon manor, a location crawling with zombies and creatures governed by a malevolent will. Survive using the given array of weapons and escape the island.
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Beneath
Single-player alternative to The Damned City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Damned City.
Beneath is a Lovecraft-inspired survival FPS. Scarce ammo, merciless enemies and a sense of the unknown combine in a 10+ hour, story-driven single player campaign, built for both veteran gamers and those seeking a challenging old school experience.
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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to The Damned City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Damned City.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
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The Walking Dead: Destinies
Single-player alternative to The Damned City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Damned City.
Change the course of AMC’s The Walking Dead history. Fight walkers, relive iconic moments, and change the destiny of The Walking Dead Universe as your choices separate heroes from villains, and the living from the dead. Will you make the same choices as Rick, or will you forge your own path?
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YAR: Forgotten Throne
Single-player alternative to The Damned City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Damned City.
YAR: Forgotten Throne is a story-driven open-world RPG. Choose the path of a Warrior, Volkhv, or Archer, and journey to the lands of Borea to uncover what is poisoning the forests and wildlife with darkness.
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Elder Legacy: Survival
Single-player alternative to The Damned City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Damned City.
GAME DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED! РАЗРАБОТКА ИГРЫ ПРИОСТАНОВЛЕНА! Elder Legacy: Survival is a fun cooperative open-world survival game where you and your friends will find ways to defeat bosses and progress through biomes together.