Single-player games like The Forgotten Ones
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Forgotten Ones, 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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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Granny Remake
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
Granny Remake is a gripping horror game where you must escape from a sinister house chased by a cunning and relentless Granny. Choose from multiple escape routes: drive away in a car, call the police, or unlock the main door
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Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forgotten Ones.
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
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Cry of Fear
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
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Nightmare of Decay
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forgotten Ones.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Half-Life 2
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Forgotten Ones.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forgotten Ones.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.