Single-player games like Despondent
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Despondent, 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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Monstah
Single-player alternative to Despondent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Despondent.
Monstah is a first-person horror game where the protagonist is a child trapped in a terrible dream and now must escape by killing a terrifying creature haunting his house.
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Never Again
Single-player alternative to Despondent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Despondent.
Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.
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Betrayer
Single-player alternative to Despondent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Despondent.
Betrayer is a first person action adventure game that takes you to the New World at the turn of the 17th century.The year is 1604. You sailed from England expecting to join a struggling colony on the coast of Virginia. Instead, you find only ghosts and mysteries. What catastrophe blighted the land and drained it of color and life?
- 4
Apartment No 129
Single-player alternative to Despondent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Despondent.
Emir, who has an interest in mysterious events, steps alone into the abandoned apartment known as "Apartment No 129" to trace the trail of a paranormal event that occurred in 2009 and shook the country. However, he will find himself in an unexpected confrontation within this horror apartment.
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Absolute Fear -AOONI- / 最恐 -青鬼-
Single-player alternative to Despondent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Despondent.
20 years after the birth of the legendary horror game "AOONI"... A completely new first-person, 3D horror stealth action "Absolute Fear -AOONI-" is now available! Players take on the role of a younger sister searching for her older sister in a mysterious mansion where AOONI roam.
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DYSTHANASIA
Single-player alternative to Despondent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Despondent.
You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.
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Harthorn
Single-player alternative to Despondent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Despondent.
It's winter break 1994 and schools out at Harthorn High School, but not all is silent in its empty classrooms and dark hallways...
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Shadows Peak
Single-player alternative to Despondent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Despondent.
Shadows Peak is an atmospheric, open-world horror game focused on exploration that doesn't hold your hand. You play as a writer who has decided to visit a mysterious place called Shadows Peak to gather materials for a new book about legends.