Single-player games like The Hat Man: Shadow Ward
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward, 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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Daylight
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.
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Don't Be Afraid
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
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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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Granny Remake
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
Granny Remake is a gripping horror game where you must escape from a sinister house chased by a cunning and relentless Granny. Choose from multiple escape routes: drive away in a car, call the police, or unlock the main door
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
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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The Walking Dead: Season Two
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
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 The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Crystal Quest Classic
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
Crystal Quest is a fast moving, adrenaline-boiling video arcade game from 1987 that won many awards. Now on the latest hardware.
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Taco Truck Madness
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
Save the world using tacos, nachos and quesadillas to put a taco truck on every corner. Drive across America avoiding obstacles and feeding hungry looking people as you go. Banditos, police, and even a sloppy joe hurling lunch lady stand in your way. Simply fun.