Single-player games like Don't Be Afraid 2
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Don't Be Afraid 2, 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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Don't Be Afraid
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Be Afraid 2.
Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…
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Deep in the Fields
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Don't Be Afraid 2.
With no other option, you take a job as a farmhand on a remote ranch in the interior of Buenos Aires. But as time passes, you begin to uncover the dark secrets buried deep in the fields.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Be Afraid 2.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Be Afraid 2.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Be Afraid 2.
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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Abandoned Souls
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Be Afraid 2.
Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Be Afraid 2.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Don't Be Afraid 2.
Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Be Afraid 2.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Don't Be Afraid 2.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Don't Be Afraid 2.
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
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Don't Be Afraid 2.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Don't Be Afraid 2.
The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Don't Be Afraid 2.
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.