Single-player games like Obscure
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Obscure, 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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Obscure II (Obscure: The Aftermath)
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Obscure.
Two years ago, a group of young teenagers found themselves trapped inside their school. They suffered through the longest night of their lives, chased by abominable creatures created by their principal. Some of them survived that terrible night, while others perished.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Obscure.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Obscure.
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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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Obscure.
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.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Obscure.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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DreadOut
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obscure.
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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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Obscure.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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Killing Floor
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Obscure.
6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!
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Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obscure.
Become a mighty demigod and battle through a decimated Tokyo in a war between angels and demons. Make new allies along your journey, engage in intense, turn-based combat, recruit hundreds of demons and forge your own path to dictate the fate of all existence.
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Mass Effect (2007)
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Obscure.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
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Bastion
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Obscure.
Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.
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DEATH STRANDING
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Obscure.
From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an all-new, genre-defying experience. Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the disconnected remnants of our future in his hands, he embarks on a journey to reconnect the shattered world one step at a time.
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Resident Evil 0
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Obscure.
Before the mansion, before the destruction of Raccoon City, there was Resident Evil 0. Now remastered with improved visuals and sounds, as well as the all-new Wesker Mode, there's never been a better time to experience the origins of the Resident Evil story.
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Obscure.
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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Alone in the Dark (2008)
Single-player alternative to Obscure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Obscure.
The game that started the popular survival horror genre returns better than ever! Players control Edward Carnby, the main character from the original Alone in the Dark, on a thrilling journey through a dark and terrifying re-creation of New York's Central Park where Carnby must discover the truth behind a dark conspiracy.