Single-player games like Dark Days
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Dark Days, 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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Martha Is Dead
Single-player alternative to Dark Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Days.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
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Refuted Wind
Single-player alternative to Dark Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Days.
Mysterious murders are happening in the area where Dave lives. In an attempt to draw attention to these horrific events, he decides to make a short film. As his project becomes known, frightening events begin to happen around him.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to Dark Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Days.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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Observation
Single-player alternative to Dark Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Days.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
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Magnetic: Cage Closed
Single-player alternative to Dark Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Days.
Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first person puzzle game where the player manipulates magnetic forces to accomplish their goals. The mechanics are focused around a single tool: The Magnet Gun which allows you to create electromagnetic fields with either positive or negative charges.
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CORPSE FACTORY
Single-player alternative to Dark Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Days.
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
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Detention
Single-player alternative to Dark Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Days.
Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.
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The Inner Friend
Single-player alternative to Dark Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Days.
Descend into an eerie world made of scattered memories and unresolved traumas and explore a nightmarish landscape where you will come face to face with childhood fears and nightmares.
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Under The Waves
Single-player alternative to Dark Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Days.
Stan, a professional diver in the North Sea, is struggling to overcome a life-changing loss during an extended mission underwater. Stuck in his self-imposed solitude, he starts to experience strange events and will have to make the most significant choice of his life...
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EQQO
Single-player alternative to Dark Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Days.
Inspired by ancient Ethiopian legends, Eqqo is a poetic narrative puzzle game, an initiatory adventure, and a love song to nature.