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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VIDEOVERSE
Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
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Crown Gambit
Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).
Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil. Pick a side amongst noble families to choose the future monarch and crush those who stand in your way through board-shattering tactical card combat!
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Roadwarden
Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
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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.
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Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
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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.
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Mayhem Brawler
Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).
Mayhem Brawler is an urban fantasy themed beat 'em up that brings back the 90s arcade vibe to present day. With comic book style art and kick-ass soundtracks, it offers a unique experience that you can tackle solo or as co-op with friends while defining the next step in the story with your choices.
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Dispatch
Single-player alternative to Appointment with FEAR (Standalone) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Appointment with FEAR (Standalone).
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
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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.
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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?
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!