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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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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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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ASYLUM
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.
An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horror from the 80s.
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The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
In Season 2 of The Last Door, the search for his missing client will bring psychiatrist John Wakefield deeper into a conspiracy of darkness and closer to the heart of madness than ever before.
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Tokyo Dark
Single-player alternative to Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage.
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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.
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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Pathologic 3
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 this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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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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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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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.