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Single-player games like Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial, 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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    Split Apart — Steam game cover

    Split Apart

    Single-player alternative to Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial.

    A retro survival horror game about envy. There's an unrelenting stench of mold and hostility permeating the stale air of this place. You need to find a way out, by any means necessary.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crow Country — Steam game cover

    Crow Country

    Single-player alternative to Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial.

    The year is 1990. It’s been two years since the mysterious disappearance of Edward Crow and the abrupt closure of his theme park, Crow Country. But your arrival has broken the silence, Mara Forest. If you want answers, you’ll have to venture deep into the darkness of Crow Country to find them…

    2024ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wall Of Insanity 2 — Steam game cover

    Wall Of Insanity 2

    Single-player alternative to Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial.

    Survive a relentless descent into a bio-organic nightmare. As a member of specialized tactical unit, navigate a decaying dimension to locate a vanished squad. Engage in high-stakes combat where every shadow hides an unspeakable horror. The veil is thinning - will you make it out?

    2026ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tormented Souls 2 — Steam game cover

    Tormented Souls 2

    Single-player alternative to Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial.

    Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.

    2025ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Iris Dissolution — Steam game cover

    Iris Dissolution

    Single-player alternative to Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial.

    Iris Dissolution is a classic survival horror game where you explore increasingly surreal places, manage scarce resources, and fight for your life against horrid creatures as you struggle to come to terms with loss.

    2026ActionAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Flesh Made Fear — Steam game cover

    Flesh Made Fear

    Single-player alternative to Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial.

    Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.

    2025ActionIndie17.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TRAUMA Broken Paradise — Steam game cover

    TRAUMA Broken Paradise

    Single-player alternative to Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial.

    A childhood stolen by brutality, a mind shattered by loss... In the ruins of a forgotten past, Sophia Markwell searches for the truth—will the ghosts of her parents’ murder lead her to redemption, or deeper into madness? And who’s Catherine?

    2023ActionAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tomb Raider I (1996) — Steam game cover

    Tomb Raider I (1996)

    Single-player alternative to Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial.

    Adventurer Lara Croft has been hired to recover the pieces of an ancient artifact known as the Scion. With her fearless acrobatic style she runs, jumps, swims and climbs her way towards the truth of its origin and powers - leaving only a trail of empty tombs and gun-cartridges in her wake.

    2012ActionAdventure6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RINBO — Steam game cover

    RINBO

    Single-player alternative to Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial.

    Embark on an epic adventure of gliding and battling through mystical lands in RINBO, where discovery awaits at every turn!

    2024ActionAdventureCasual6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →