Single-player games like Dark Deception
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Dark Deception, 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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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception.
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: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception.
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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Super Dark Deception
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception.
Death awaits you once again in Super Dark Deception, a fun 2D reimagining of the hit horror maze game, Dark Deception!
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Don't Be Afraid
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception.
Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…
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Daylight
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception.
You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Deception.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception.
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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Hollow Knight: Silksong
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
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Poppy Playtime
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception.
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
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Mortals and Monsters: Blood Orc
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dark Deception.
Tower defense game by WandCast Games. Battle armies of orcs, goblins and undead in a desperate bid for survival. Design a maze to confound your foes. Destroy them with towering defenses. Control the battle with your powers. Save your people from the ancient and evil Blood Orc! Game by two people.
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PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Deception.
PAC-MAN arrives home on his birthday to find the Ghosts have kidnapped PAC-MAN’s family and ruined his party! Off to the rescue, PAC-MAN sets out to Ghost Island!
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Farmocalypse
Single-player alternative to Dark Deception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception.
Farmocalypse is a spoopy survival farming game where you must grow crops and defend your farm against hordes of zombies, evil humans, monsters, ghosts, and demons.