Single-player games like Wilderdark
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Wilderdark, 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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Undulations
Single-player alternative to Wilderdark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wilderdark.
This is a survival escape action game from a huge wave where you can experience fear and despair within the first minute. The goal is to run around freely in 3D space from a first-person perspective and avoid large waves. The joy of conquering a huge wave is immeasurable.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Wilderdark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wilderdark.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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In The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Wilderdark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wilderdark.
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."
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P.A.M.E.L.A.®
Single-player alternative to Wilderdark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wilderdark.
Explore, fight, and survive as an awakened sleeper, in a fallen utopian city ravaged by a horrific disease. With an array of hi-tech weapons, highly immersive UI, full-body awareness, and much more, P.A.M.E.L.A. delivers an intense and unforgiving survival experience.
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Betrayer
Single-player alternative to Wilderdark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wilderdark.
Betrayer is a first person action adventure game that takes you to the New World at the turn of the 17th century.The year is 1604. You sailed from England expecting to join a struggling colony on the coast of Virginia. Instead, you find only ghosts and mysteries. What catastrophe blighted the land and drained it of color and life?
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Absolute Fear -AOONI- / 最恐 -青鬼-
Single-player alternative to Wilderdark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wilderdark.
20 years after the birth of the legendary horror game "AOONI"... A completely new first-person, 3D horror stealth action "Absolute Fear -AOONI-" is now available! Players take on the role of a younger sister searching for her older sister in a mysterious mansion where AOONI roam.
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Chernobylite Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Wilderdark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wilderdark.
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
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Phantaruk
Single-player alternative to Wilderdark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wilderdark.
Phantaruk combines survival horror with adventure and stealth mechanics. Expect true shivers down your spine as you fight for your life not only facing the dangers of the Purity-02 spaceship, but most of all - when you try to get rid of toxins continually destroying you from the inside.
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Monstrum
Single-player alternative to Wilderdark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wilderdark.
Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.
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Attack of the Earthlings
Single-player alternative to Wilderdark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wilderdark.
Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that fuses satisfying strategic gameplay and dark comedy in a quirky single-player story.
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Bootleg Steamer
Single-player alternative to Wilderdark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wilderdark.
In this rogue-like game, you embark on your journey as a captain during the tumultuous American Prohibition. Overcome challenges like inclement weather, relentless Coast Guard pursuit, shrewd Mafia dealings, and your own financial pitfalls, all while ensuring your path to wealth remains unhindered.