Single-player games like Alone in the Dark (2008)
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Alone in the Dark (2008), 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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Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark (2008).
From the moment Edward Carnby and Aline Cedrac set foot on Shadow Island, they are confronted by mysterious, evil creatures intent on thwarting their progress to recover 3 ancient tablets believed to hold the secret key to some incredible menacing phenomena. Danger threatens from every corner.
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark (2008).
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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I Am Alive
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark (2008).
I Am Alive casts the player as a lone survivor in a believable, dark and insecure post-apocalyptic world.
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Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a first-person horror game that combines intense action and adventure elements.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark (2008).
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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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark (2008).
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark (2008).
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark (2008).
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 Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark (2008).
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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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark (2008).
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
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Gear.Club Unlimited 2 - Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
With the pedal to the metal, race along more than 3,000 kilometers of tracks that await you! On the mountainside, through a nature park, in the middle of the desert or along the coast, defend your position in more than 250 races, with championships, exhibition races and Grand Prix.
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Garfield Kart 2 - All You Can Drift
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fire Up Your Engines, Because Garfield Is Waiting for You at the Starting Line! Play as one of the eight cult characters from the Garfield universe, fill up your karts, customize your look, and race away at breakneck speeds.
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Smurfs Kart
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Who will be the fastest Smurf in town? That is the question you will need to answer in this dynamic kart racing game in the world of Smurfs!
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Gear.Club Unlimited 3
Single-player alternative to Alone in the Dark (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Gear.Club series is back! Customize and set up your favourite cars to race at top speed along the roads of the French Mediterranean coast and Japan. Don't just win – show off your style!