Single-player games like Days Like A Nightmare
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Days Like A Nightmare, 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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Grunenberg
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Days Like A Nightmare.
"Grunenberg" is a single-player horror game that utilizes the visual and sound design of VHS tapes. The protagonist, Jimmy Solomon, comes to the abandoned area named Grunenberg to find his grandfather and captures everything he sees on the camera as his grandfather's request.
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Your Computer Might Be At Risk
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Days Like A Nightmare.
Your Computer Might Be At Risk is a first-person narrative puzzle game. Locked up in a room after a mysterious car accident, you must figure out how to escape while surviving dangerous trials.
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THE XEN
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Days Like A Nightmare.
Add up to 10. THE XEN is an adrenaline-pumping puzzle roguelike where every number counts. Test your game sense against the world.
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DISORDER - Save Your Family
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Days Like A Nightmare.
DISORDER is a dark, twisted word puzzle horror game where your mistakes hold irreversible consequences. Players will be challenged to play through a series of challenging rounds in an attempt to 'Save Your Family' if the player fails a round they then 'Choose Who Dies'
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The Apartment
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Days Like A Nightmare.
I am an ordinary cleaner working in an ordinary apartment building. At least, that’s what I thought.
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The Classrooms
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Days Like A Nightmare.
The Classrooms is a procedural, liminal-space, found-footage, survival horror game. Explore The Classrooms and discover the various anomalies it contains; from malicious entities, to harmless oddities. And remember, it's different every time you play, so your found footage is uniquely yours.
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Inner Chains
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Days Like A Nightmare.
An FPS horror game set in a surreal, dark and deadly biomechanical world never seen before. Humankind is just a small part of a hostile universe. Want to survive? Discover its secrets.
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Apartment No 129
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Days Like A Nightmare.
Emir, who has an interest in mysterious events, steps alone into the abandoned apartment known as "Apartment No 129" to trace the trail of a paranormal event that occurred in 2009 and shook the country. However, he will find himself in an unexpected confrontation within this horror apartment.
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Minesweeper Classy
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Days Like A Nightmare.
A modern and stylish take on a classic logic puzzle game. Play the classic minesweeper levels, beat unique level layouts and challenges, or create and share your own level designs. Features a ton of customization options.
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Minesweeper H
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Days Like A Nightmare.
A twist on classic Minesweeper gameplay × unlockable bishoujo H rewards. Challenge 4 stages × 3 difficulty levels — complete each map to view an animated H scene. Clear Expert mode to permanently unlock it to your Gallery and revisit anytime.
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Draconic Route
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Days Like A Nightmare.
In the 1980s arcade game taste, stoic and polished tactics.
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Playable Mockup
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Days Like A Nightmare.
Explore an infinite loop corridor and get to 0 PM to 0 AM by building a "Time manipulation deck". You will be challenged with a life threatening test. Wander the “Dead Soul Corridor” created from a ghost photo. Find a way to get to the soul of the dead.
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国際指定怪異123号 廃村
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Days Like A Nightmare.
毎年出現する「廃村」と呼ばれる奇妙な無人村には、必ず１人の少女が生贄として幽閉される… 廃村に突入する３人の特殊部隊と、監禁された１人の少女を操作し、脱出を目指します。
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Photogenic Minds : Identity
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Days Like A Nightmare.
"デッキ構築型３D探索サイコホラー"。 PM0:00からAM0:00までの12時間を支配し、無限ループを抜けて死者の魂を捕獲して下さい。 使えるのはたった1つのカメラだけ。
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The Children's Friend
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
少しだけ恐ろしいサンタになって、子供たちにプレゼントを配ろう。 家にあるものを見て、良い子なのか、悪い子なのか考え、ふさわしいプレゼントを贈らなければならない。 プレゼントは玩具か、はたまたチェーンソーの一撃か？
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Doll's Liminal
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Days Like A Nightmare.
Avoid or defeat dolls that move when you're not looking, take their bodies, and make your way to the 399th dimension. This is a short horror game of fear and strategy, an exploration survival horror.
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In the footage
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
"In the footage" is a horror exploration game.[/h2]You awaken in an empty room with nothing to do but play a videotape lying on the floor and contemplate the meaning of the footage. That's all you can do at this point.
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国際指定怪異124号 東京廃村
Single-player alternative to Days Like A Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Days Like A Nightmare.
特殊部隊全滅ホラー／４人ザッピング操作アクション。全てがリアルタイムに進行する中で、極限のストレスが狂乱のアドレナリンに進化するまで戦いましょう。心折れるまで挑む、１ラウンドが短くリプレイ性の高いハードコアなゲーム性をお楽しみ下さい。