Single-player games like Darkwood
Below are 16 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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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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Darkwood 2
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Darkwood.
Roam freely around the scorched deserts of a dying sea as you secure resources and explore the mysteries of Darkwood. But beware nightfall – seek shelter, shore up your defenses, and pray for the morning light as the horrors of the world hunt the ill-prepared.
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DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
Every descent is a deadly gamble. DIVE or DIE in the cursed abyss, face Eldritch horrors to uncover the mystery of the black rain. Scavenge and upgrade, recruit and sacrifice. Save your camp... The Flood is coming.
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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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The Last Cargo
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
The Last Cargo is a dark survival horror - where your road to independence leads through the hell of imprisonment.
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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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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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Fade to Silence
Single-player alternative to Darkwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Darkwood.
Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.
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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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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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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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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!