Single-player games like Dreadway
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dreadway, 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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UNDERWARD
Single-player alternative to Dreadway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadway.
UNDERWARD is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Investigators must carry «TEST-SUBJECT» monsters from a deadly underground abandoned hospital ward.
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Pizza Deathlivery
Single-player alternative to Dreadway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadway.
Alone or up to 6 players, deliver pizzas to the survivors of a city where an oppressive mist has turned almost everyone into monstrous creatures.
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Backrooms Society
Single-player alternative to Dreadway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadway.
Backrooms Society is a 1-8 player co-op horror game. Make your way through unique levels of the backrooms while trying to survive and avoid mysterious entities. Scavenge each level for gear and resources, bring it back to The Hub where you can sell valuables and buy/craft new gear.
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Ghost Janitors
Single-player alternative to Dreadway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadway.
Ghost Janitors is a multiplayer psychological horror game for 1-4 players. Your job? Cleaning haunted houses while avoiding terrifying monsters. Ready to face the spine-tingling challenge with your team?
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DREADZONE
Single-player alternative to Dreadway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadway.
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
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Murky Divers
Single-player alternative to Dreadway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadway.
Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
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Sketchy's Contract
Single-player alternative to Dreadway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dreadway.
A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.
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Lethal Company
Single-player alternative to Dreadway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadway.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.