Single-player games like Surface: Project Dawn
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Surface: Project Dawn, 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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Book Travelers: A Victorian Story
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
Can you save literature’s most famous story worlds from ruin?
- 2
Crossroads: Escaping the Dark
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
Can you guide a tormented gamer through a trio of terrifying challenges?
- 3
Haunted Legends: The Call of Despair Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
People in Nulver Town are turning into crystal and more appear on the streets each day! Can you find out who’s behind these strange transformations and save the town before it’s too late?
- 4
Halloween Stories: Horror Movie
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
Four friends are pulled inside a movie where the special effects are all too real!
- 5
Mystery Case Files: Incident at Pendle Tower
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
Pendle Tower was once a lavish high-rise hotel, but a new renovation has awakened a long-dormant secret within its foreboding halls.
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Reflections of Life: Spindle of Fate
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
The world’s fate hangs by a thread...
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Chimeras: Blinding Love
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
Something dangerous prowls the streets... Can you find out what's targeting young men in Paris?
- 8
Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst®
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
Rumors surrounding the history of stately Ravenhearst Manor have circulated for decades. The recently acquired diary of Emma Ravenhearst may hold the key to unraveling the tale behind this unsettling place, yet the pages are missing.
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Haunted Hotel
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
Check in to the spooky Haunted Hotel and immerse yourself in a thrilling adventure!
- 10
Midnight Calling: Wise Dragon Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
A visit to your father takes a dark turn as you find your hometown in flames! Your only hope is to find the Wise Dragon, but are they friend or foe? It’s up to you to find out!
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Halloween Stories: Mark on the Bone Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
When an evil spirit starts claiming souls from its abandoned fortress, can you use your skills as a Medium to stop the Dark Keeper’s plans and escape with your life in time?
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Book Travelers: A Victorian Story Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
As head librarian takes a strange turn when novelist Charlotte Brontë herself magically appears to ask for your help! Someone’s going into famous stories and changing them, threatening the worlds and characters inside. Can you travel into your favorite novels to stop a dangerous vigilante in time?
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Crossroads: Escaping the Dark Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
A visit to Crossroads becomes a digital nightmare for a gamer struggling with a host of trauma-induced phobias!
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Christmas Stories: Taxi of Miracles Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
A tough year has put a damper on your town’s holiday cheer. With Christmas just around the corner, it’s up to you and a jolly cab driver named Nick to help townspeople in need and share the true meaning of Christmas with one and all!
- 15
Cursed Fables: Twisted Tower Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
When news of a creature stealing the souls of men from a local village reaches your coven, it’s the perfect chance for you to prove you’re ready to join their ranks! Do you have what it takes to stop the beast from destroying the kingdom, or will you lose yourself to the tower’s darkness?
- 16
Paranormal Files: Price of a Secret Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Surface: Project Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surface: Project Dawn.
Rumors of hauntings surround the Russells’ Winery and Hotel for decades, but it’s not until you arrive that the paranormal goes on the offensive! Something doesn’t want you investigating the secluded island, and it will do anything to keep its secrets buried. Crack the case before it’s too late?