Single-player games like Dark Shadows
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dark Shadows, 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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Dark Forest: The Horror
Single-player alternative to Dark Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Shadows.
Dark Forest is an adventure horror game in which you have to find a way out of your prolonged sleep. Otherwise, you risk staying in it forever.
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The Jurassic Labyrinth
Single-player alternative to Dark Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Shadows.
A psychological horror puzzle game set in a living labyrinth that adapts to your choices. Solve shifting mechanisms, navigate ever-changing corridors, and evade a relentless presence that learns your behavior as you try to escape.
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Bughouse
Single-player alternative to Dark Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Shadows.
Play as Christopher, a kid left home alone with a terrifying STALKER on the loose! Try and survive in this 80's, PS1 inspired, Home Invasion Survival Horror game - OR DIE TRYING!
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Granny Remake
Single-player alternative to Dark Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Shadows.
Granny Remake is a gripping horror game where you must escape from a sinister house chased by a cunning and relentless Granny. Choose from multiple escape routes: drive away in a car, call the police, or unlock the main door
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Hollow Cocoon
Single-player alternative to Dark Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Shadows.
"Trapped in a cocoon, the silkworm weaves her final dream." Hollow Cocoon is a first-person horror adventure game set in 1980s Japan. Immerse yourself in meticulously recreated environments as you venture into the depths of unspeakable horrors that await you.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Dark Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Shadows.
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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Uventa
Single-player alternative to Dark Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dark Shadows.
The tragic fate brings you, a simple night guard, to an abandoned school. Plunge into a horrifying story and get to the bottom of the secret that this spectre of the long-gone Soviet era has in store.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Dark Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Shadows.
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.