Single-player games like Into The Dread
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Into The Dread, 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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HORDEKILL
Single-player alternative to Into The Dread — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Into The Dread.
On an alien planet, slaves revolt against their cannibal masters.
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ANOMALITH
Single-player alternative to Into The Dread — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Into The Dread.
“ANOMALITH” is a survival third-person shooter set in Japan, steeped in the atmosphere of liminal spaces and Showa-era retro aesthetics. To search for her missing friend, a girl steps into a world writhing with anomalies.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Into The Dread — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Into The Dread.
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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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Into The Dread — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Into The Dread.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to Into The Dread — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Into The Dread.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
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Barbotine
Single-player alternative to Into The Dread — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Into The Dread.
An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.
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Resident Evil 2 (1998)
Single-player alternative to Into The Dread — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Into The Dread.
Command Leon S. Kennedy, a rookie cop who stumbles onto the carnage reporting for his first duty, or play as Claire Redfield, desperately searching for her missing brother. Cutting edge 3-D accelerated graphics that create a terrifying, photo-realistic experience.
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Single-player alternative to Into The Dread — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Into The Dread.
From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
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Nightmare Collection: Telephone Call
Single-player alternative to Into The Dread — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Into The Dread.
Telephone Call is a short horror story about receiving strange phone call during a party.