Single-player games like Don't Be Afraid 2
Below are 16 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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Blasfemia
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Don't Be Afraid 2.
Blasfemia is a first-person horror game. You are trapped in a seemingly normal apartment but realize early on that you're not alone. Explore a handcrafted, detail rich environment in a tense and terrifying atmosphere and try to find a way out before an ominous entity gets to you.
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Don't Be Afraid 2.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Subliminal
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Don't Be Afraid 2.
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
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Dream Cage
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Don't Be Afraid 2.
Robert battles early Alzheimer's and nightly sleep paralysis. Each night reveals fragments of his past. Uncover the truth and help him solve the mysteries haunting his mind.
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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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Visage
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Be Afraid 2.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Ad Infinitum
Single-player alternative to Don't Be Afraid 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Don't Be Afraid 2.
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
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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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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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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.
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Insanitorium - 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.
Trapped in a psychiatric hospital, you must escape demons lurking in the shadows.Explore Insanitorium only with your flashlight and scarce batteries, defend yourself with a machete and a dart gun, and face the strange patients. Remember, do not listen to the mannequins that whisper inside your head.