Single-player games like Darkwood
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Darkwood, 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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
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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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
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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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
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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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Darkwood.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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SUNLESS SEA
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
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How to Survive
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
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Don't Starve
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Darkwood.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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Sons Of The Forest
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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Pathologic 2
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
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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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
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 Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Darkwood.
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 Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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DREDGE
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood.
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Darkwood.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Soccer Kids Alpha
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Darkwood.
A game about soccer, made by people who suck at playing soccer. Guide your team of nerds to victory in this tight, tactical soccer game!