Single-player games like Inner Darkness
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Inner Darkness, 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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Rusty Lake Hotel
Single-player alternative to Inner Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inner Darkness.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Inner Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inner Darkness.
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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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Inner Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inner Darkness.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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Happy Game
Single-player alternative to Inner Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inner Darkness.
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
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The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
Single-player alternative to Inner Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inner Darkness.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Inner Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inner Darkness.
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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Layers of Fear (2016)
Single-player alternative to Inner Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inner Darkness.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
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2Dark
Single-player alternative to Inner Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inner Darkness.
2Dark is a stealth adventure game developed by Frédérick Raynal, the pioneer of survival horror games and creator of Alone in the Dark®. Make your way through the lairs of psychopaths, unravel intrigue where madness mingles with horror, and, above all, save the kids!
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Project Liminal Redux
Single-player alternative to Inner Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inner Darkness.
Project Liminal Redux is a first-person horror made in realistic 3D graphics. The gameplay consists of collecting notes, solving riddles and escaping from various entities. The main goal is to survive and escape.
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Project Liminal 2
Single-player alternative to Inner Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inner Darkness.
Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.