Single-player games like Christmas Nightmare
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Christmas 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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Silent Nights
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Silent Nights - A short horror game with realistic graphics, touching storyline and scary moments.
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Abandoned Souls
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
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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Chorus of Carcosa
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Chorus of Carcosa is a first-person psychological horror game about an anxious sculptor who is trapped in a dark and ever-changing building. Stay silent, survive its twisted labyrinths and escape the monsters. Just don’t lose your way in the shadows or within your own mind.
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Crimson Snow (2023)
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Christmas is a joyful time, but this time something dark is hiding behind the holiday decorations. Your actions will determine whether you and your girlfriend survive Christmas night.
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Find Yourself
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Christmas Nightmare.
Explore the truly frightening subway cars and find out what fears the main character will have to face.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
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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LOST ZION
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Lost Zion is an atmospheric cyberpunk horror game. Awakened by a faint signal as a service bot, explore the forsaken megacity of Lost Zion. Uncover the Emperor's horrific secrets. Obey your sole command: Activate the Gravity Core.
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September 7th
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Christmas Nightmare.
"September 7th" is a short horror game released for Christmas. The plot of the game is simple to the point of banality, and the gameplay is not delayed.The game also contains some Easter eggs and mentions. The game takes place in 2009.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
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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The Cat Lady
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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 Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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The Grinch: Christmas Adventures
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Christmas Nightmare.
The Grinch has had a wonderful, awful idea – steal all the presents in Who-ville, using gadgets like his stealthy Santa costume and Candy Cane Lasso. Help him sneak around, freeze creatures with snowballs, and learn the meaning of Christmas along the way, in this festive platformer!
- 15
SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
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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Until Dawn™
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
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The Cursed Tape
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Someone slipped a mysterious videotape under your door... Do you dare watch it?!
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Reflection
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Christmas Nightmare.
You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...
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There's Something In The Ice
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
In 2015, three scientists at the Antarctic research station "Zarya" drilled into the ice to a depth of 2 kilometers and took samples for study... It seems that what they found was not at all what they were looking for...
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In My Head
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
You have been sent photographs of a place where, according to rumors, an artifact of an ancient civilization is hidden... Do you dare to go there?!
- 21
The Dark Gift
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
The Dark Gift is a horror game about Christmas and New Year.
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From The Past
Single-player alternative to Christmas Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
What hides in the depths of the forest?!