Single-player games like Dismay
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dismay, 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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Nightmare Journey
Single-player alternative to Dismay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dismay.
You’re on a bus, caught in a cycle of shifting nightmares. escape the horrors, and reach the station awake and alive.
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Unredeemable
Single-player alternative to Dismay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dismay.
Search to escape the school halls and fight to be free from the guilt that haunts the past. Where monsters birthed are memories made manifest and your fate is yours alone. Experience a beautifully haunting narrative in this psychological survival horror as David Cook, a boy in search of his end.
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Abyssal Trench
Single-player alternative to Dismay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dismay.
Abyssal Trench is a first-person underwater horror game where you play as a lone explorer waking from cryo-sleep after a failed mission. With your pod out of fuel and your crew gone, a mysterious AI voice guides you to collect data from three abandoned drilling sites deep beneath the ocean.
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UNPUNISHED
Single-player alternative to Dismay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dismay.
Realizing that Mark will have to return to his family home, he begins to gradually sort through the family archives. Mark will have to read his parents' old letters, go down into the deepest parts of the house to unravel the secrets that have been hidden from him all these years.
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CRUELTY
Single-player alternative to Dismay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dismay.
"CRUELTY" is a Japanese-made splatter horror. You were in an accident and lost consciousness. The moment you wake up, you find yourself in a nightmare world, one that is not of this Earth. In an abattoir ruled by madness, horrific scenes unfold, and inescapable terror awaits you.
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Mirror Forge
Single-player alternative to Dismay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dismay.
Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.
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The Backrooms Project
Single-player alternative to Dismay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dismay.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
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[Chilla's Art] Onryo | 怨霊
Single-player alternative to Dismay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dismay.
Onryo | 怨霊 is a survival action horror game set in Japan. Your mission is to lift the curse of a haunted house using your exorcistic camera. As you explore the house and uncover its secrets, you will face enemies and puzzles.