Single-player games like Calvar - The Darkest Gate
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Calvar - The Darkest Gate, 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 House
Single-player alternative to Calvar - The Darkest Gate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Calvar - The Darkest Gate.
The House is a new first-person horror and psychological game for the computer. Escape the house where it all began, collect items, weapons and level up. Travel between worlds and time to reach your goal. Go discover the dark secrets of the House where it all began!
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The madness of death
Single-player alternative to Calvar - The Darkest Gate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Calvar - The Darkest Gate.
The madness of death is a first person psychological horror game. Explore the house in order to escape from it and break the curse of the Death Stone. You will have to solve the puzzles in order to advance and try not to stay in the dark.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Calvar - The Darkest Gate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Calvar - The Darkest Gate.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Mirror Forge
Single-player alternative to Calvar - The Darkest Gate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Calvar - The Darkest Gate.
Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.
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Unpossess: Exorcism Simulator
Single-player alternative to Calvar - The Darkest Gate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Calvar - The Darkest Gate.
Unpossess is a 1-4 co-op exorcism simulator game set in the early 1900s. Players take on the role of exorcists responsible for addressing cases of human possession.
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The Backrooms Project
Single-player alternative to Calvar - The Darkest Gate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Calvar - The Darkest Gate.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
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Malum
Single-player alternative to Calvar - The Darkest Gate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Calvar - The Darkest Gate.
Malum is the premier C-list horror game. Run from a motely collection of bizarre demons then summon in some guns to turn the tables on them. Best enjoyed with friends.
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CRUELTY
Single-player alternative to Calvar - The Darkest Gate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Calvar - The Darkest Gate.
"CRUELTY" is a Japanese-made splatter horror. You were in an accident and lost consciousness. The moment you wake up, you find yourself in a nightmare world, one that is not of this Earth. In an abattoir ruled by madness, horrific scenes unfold, and inescapable terror awaits you.