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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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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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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Kona
Single-player alternative to Into The Dread — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Into The Dread.
Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.
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Mouthwashing
Single-player alternative to Into The Dread — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Into The Dread.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
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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.