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Single-player games like Appointment with FEAR (Standalone)

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone), 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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    Invincible Presents: Atom Eve — Steam game cover

    Invincible Presents: Atom Eve

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    Become Atom Eve and take control of your own path as one of the most powerful superheroes in the Invincible universe! Unravel a mystery and balance the dangers and responsibilities of being a superhero with the relatable challenges of everyday life.

    2023Adventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Unsupervised — Steam game cover

    Unsupervised

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    You and your friends were teenage sidekicks of the world's greatest heroes. But now, the heroes are missing. It's your turn to kick @#$ and save the world!

    2024IndieAdventureRPG7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Talon City: Death from Above — Steam game cover

    Talon City: Death from Above

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    You’re a clever owl lawyer out of your depth, searching for a missing client. With enemies at every turn, can you survive and save the day?

    2022IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Community College Hero: Fun and Games — Steam game cover

    Community College Hero: Fun and Games

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    Ever wonder how heroes-in-training spend their time between epic confrontations with dastardly villains? Join the students at Speck Community College as they enjoy a tabletop roleplay game, investigate a legendary small-town monster, and endure the embarrassments of Parents’ Day.

    2022IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Expelled! — Steam game cover

    Expelled!

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Overboard! — Steam game cover

    Overboard!

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

    2021IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heading Out — Steam game cover

    Heading Out

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    Flee your fear and carve your story. Blaze a trail across mythic American highways, where choices twist your tale and danger’s always in the rearview mirror. With roguelike routes, limited resources, and breakneck chases, this isn’t just a drive—it’s your legend in the making.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Goodbye Volcano High — Steam game cover

    Goodbye Volcano High

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.

    2023IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fighting Fantasy Classics — Steam game cover

    Fighting Fantasy Classics

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests in which YOU are the hero! Choose what happens at every turn of the page with Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered.

    2018IndieRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Warlock of Firetop Mountain — Steam game cover

    The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a tabletop adventure come to life! This fantasy solo RPG combines unique, simultaneous turn-based combat with a journey that changes based on each figurine you take into Firetop Mountain! Which hero will you take into Zagor's lair THIS time?

    2016ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    To Be or Not To Be — Steam game cover

    To Be or Not To Be

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    Guide Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet Sr. to hundreds of hilarious deaths in Ryan North's chooseable-path edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet!

    2015IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Forest of Doom (Standalone) — Steam game cover

    The Forest of Doom (Standalone)

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    YOU are the hero in Forest of Doom! Explore the sinister Darkwood Forest in the digital Fighting Fantasy Standalone version of Ian Livingstone's classic RPG gamebook!

    2014IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Legacy of Dorn: Herald of Oblivion (Classic) — Steam game cover

    Legacy of Dorn: Herald of Oblivion (Classic)

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    A vast choice-based digital gamebook set within the Warhammer 40,000 universe where you are a Space Marine!

    2015AdventureRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown — Steam game cover

    Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown is a role playing adventure that brings tabletop gaming to life in virtual reality! Also includes a new non-VR mode for players without VR hardware. Join a band of scoundrels in this unique sea-faring tabletop RPG adventure!

    2021StrategyAdventureRPG19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Caverns of the Snow Witch (Standalone) — Steam game cover

    Caverns of the Snow Witch (Standalone)

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    YOU are the hero in Caverns of the Snow Witch! Triumph agains the villainous Snow Witch in Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy classic RPG gamebook!

    2015IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Curse of the Assassin — Steam game cover

    Curse of the Assassin

    Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).

    Fight, outwit and explore in Orlandes City as you uncover a conspiracy in this Gamebook Adventure where YOU control the story!

    2015IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →