Single-player games like Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage, 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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Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.
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Quest room: Hanon
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
After 20 years in search of the mysterious Egyptian artifact of Hanon, you managed to find the entrance, but to get inside you need to solve more than one puzzle. You do not have much time, you are locked in 4 walls and oxygen is running out.
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Conarium
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
The Sherlock Holmes series returns with this updated version of The Awakened, which brings a whole new dimension to the original title developed by Frogwares. The game puts the player into an investigation of the Cthulhu Mythos - as imagined by Father of modern horror, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Transient: Extended Edition
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
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Draugen
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
Draugen is a single-player, first-person Fjord Noir mystery set in 1920s Norway. Explore a forgotten coastal village in your search for your missing sister, accompanied by your independent and enigmatic young ward. Norwegian Game of the Year 2019.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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The Room Two
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
Unique events transport you to the halls of a long-forgotten crypt. The only means of escape lies locked within a stone pedestal, along with a note from your mysterious ally. His words promise assistance, but only serve to entice you into a compelling world of mystery and exploration.
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The Painscreek Killings
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?
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Lunacy: Saint Rhodes
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
Lunacy: Saint Rhodes is a first-person psychological horror adventure game. Explore your dark family history, solve puzzles and experience a gut-wrenching feeling of terror. You are being watched; never alone, never safe.
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Veil of Madness
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
In Veil of Madness, the mind is the battlefield and your deck is your only weapon. Plunged into a first-person nightmare, you'll battle horrors without and madness within through strategic card combat and harrowing psychological mystery.