Single-player games like Connection: The Nightmare Within
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Connection: The Nightmare Within, 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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Rabbit Hole
Single-player alternative to Connection: The Nightmare Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Connection: The Nightmare Within.
An ancient evil has descended upon the rural town of Rabbit Hole. Now Shaun Turner not only has to untangle a twisted web of supernatural events and mysteries to save his family but also escape from the hellish remains of his hometown.
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Eternal Evil
Single-player alternative to Connection: The Nightmare Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Connection: The Nightmare Within.
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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Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Connection: The Nightmare Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Connection: The Nightmare Within.
A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!
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The Evil Within 2
Single-player alternative to Connection: The Nightmare Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Connection: The Nightmare Within.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Connection: The Nightmare Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Connection: The Nightmare Within.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Connection: The Nightmare Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Connection: The Nightmare Within.
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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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Connection: The Nightmare Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Connection: The Nightmare Within.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Connection: The Nightmare Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Connection: The Nightmare Within.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Connection: The Nightmare Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Connection: The Nightmare Within.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Connection: The Nightmare Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Connection: The Nightmare Within.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.