Single-player games like Dead Format
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Format, 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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Redemption
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
A first-person action horror game set in a military research facility infested with dangerous creatures, navigate your escape while battling to stay alive in this enigmatic location.
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Haunted Bloodlines
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
Every family has secrets. This house knows yours. Haunted Bloodlines is a first-person psychological horror game where the halls shift, the walls breathe, and the mansion has been waiting for you your whole life.
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Resident Evil Village
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.
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Among Ashes
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿
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Leenie Boog
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
The war. Light versus darkness. It has been going on for thousands of years. One night, the Thousand-Year War suddenly knocked on your window. You will have to meet an uninvited guest.
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Outlast 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
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Massacre At The Mirage
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
For less than the price of a movie ticket, experience your very own horror-fueled slasher flick in Massacre at the Mirage. Step into The Mirage cinema and face a chilling nightmare, where staff and patrons must survive a masked killer's rampage.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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The Thing from Nowhere
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".
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The Thing: Remastered
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing
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Daemonologie
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A short folk horror story about the Scottish witch trials. You play the role of a witch finder. Speak to the locals and sort their truths from their lies. On the last morning a witch must hang, best you know who by then.