Single-player games like Modern Fear
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Modern Fear, 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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Forest 6174
Single-player alternative to Modern Fear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Modern Fear.
A brief narrative-driven psychological horror experience in first person (no jumpscares, story and dialogue-focused). You play as Danny, who is unexpectedly summoned to receive a break from his daily routine... However, things start to look out of place once you get deeper into the forest.
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Whispering Fog
Single-player alternative to Modern Fear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Modern Fear.
Whispering Fog is a first person psychological horror game set in an ever-changing forest shrouded in fog. A quiet getaway becomes a sinister nightmare as the illusion of safety and solitude slowly crumbles around you.
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Flick
Single-player alternative to Modern Fear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Modern Fear.
Shift realities with the flick of a light switch and plunge into the grotesque to uncover your family's twisted past. A psychological horror game where you must balance the light you need to progress with the terrifying nightmares it summons.
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Paranormal Footages : Supervisor
Single-player alternative to Modern Fear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Modern Fear.
Ethan Cole takes on a temporary night shift at the "Ravenhill" warehouse. What begins as a routine package sorting gradually turns into something far more disturbing. Before long, Ethan realizes that some shipments were never meant to be delivered.
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Clink
Single-player alternative to Modern Fear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Modern Fear.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
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Life & Shadow: Celestial Call
Single-player alternative to Modern Fear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Modern Fear.
You are trapped in the observatory of a star-obsessed professor atop Mount Clearveil. Plan your survival during the day, confront the darkness of the basement at night. Can you break the ritual and uncover the mystery?
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The Dark Gift
Single-player alternative to Modern Fear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Modern Fear.
The Dark Gift is a horror game about Christmas and New Year.
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Last Days of Lazarus
Single-player alternative to Modern Fear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Modern Fear.
After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.