Single-player games like Dreadwoods Gatekeeper
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dreadwoods Gatekeeper, 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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The Lightkeeper Is Gone
Single-player alternative to Dreadwoods Gatekeeper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadwoods Gatekeeper.
The Lightkeeper Is Gone is a retro-styled horror adventure set in the 1930's on a lone island. Take on the job of keeping the lighthouse while discovering the story of those that came before.
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Snafu
Single-player alternative to Dreadwoods Gatekeeper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadwoods Gatekeeper.
Alibaba, the caretaker of the Medieval Grow your Business Game notices a Glitch or Virus of some sort called Snafu has infiltrated the game files. NPCs begin to act strangely, textures look off, and I think - I think something is trying to hunt me down?
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Dorm 17
Single-player alternative to Dreadwoods Gatekeeper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadwoods Gatekeeper.
Dorm 17 is a PSX-style first-person psychological horror game about your first night as a dormitory receptionist, where routine tasks slowly turn into disturbing late-night events.
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CROWDED. FOLLOWED.
Single-player alternative to Dreadwoods Gatekeeper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadwoods Gatekeeper.
You have the briefcase. Now it's after you. It's not going to stop. Be careful—it may take the form of someone else. A short horror game by NIGHT DIAL.
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Terminal 81
Single-player alternative to Dreadwoods Gatekeeper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadwoods Gatekeeper.
Thanks to the financial crisis of 2008, Lorena migrated to Terminal 81 to work, but what seemed like a simple Latin American neighborhood, it was a dangerous region dominated by a mysterious criminal organization that carries out murders, kidnappings and human trafficking.
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Cat Named Mojave
Single-player alternative to Dreadwoods Gatekeeper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadwoods Gatekeeper.
Stranded in the desert, your only hope of escaping rests in a strange Catman. His one request: hunt down surreal creatures, skin them, and chop them up so he can keep them as trophies.
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Eclipsium
Single-player alternative to Dreadwoods Gatekeeper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadwoods Gatekeeper.
Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.
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No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut
Single-player alternative to Dreadwoods Gatekeeper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadwoods Gatekeeper.
A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.