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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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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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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Visage
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters is a Korean survival horror-adventure. Venture from your deserted school to survive the horrors of the night. Explore the surrounding Sehwa district and uncover the shadow realm's dark secrets. Use everything at your disposal to avoid a demoness hellbent on killing you!
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White Night
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
The dark will reveal all!Explore the macabre past of an old mansion in the 1930's and solve puzzles of light and shadows in this fully black & white survival horror! Players are trapped in this nightmare where darkness is a constant threat!
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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
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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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DreadOut
Single-player alternative to The Hat Man: Shadow Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hat Man: Shadow Ward.
DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.
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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.