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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Among Ashes
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
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Flesh Made Fear
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.
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Caput Mortum
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Travel back to 16th-century France and delve into the mysterious depths of a seemingly abandoned alchemist's tower. Do you dare brave the horrors that beckon you below... deeper still?
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Clock Tower: Rewind
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The 16-bit nightmare returns. Survive, hide, and avoid the deadly Scissorman in this legendary horror classic.
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Silver Pines
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.
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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
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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Project Songbird
Single-player alternative to Dead Format — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Format.
Project Songbird is a cinematic first-person narrative horror game set in the Appalachian forest. Take on the role of Dakota, a musician who must record their new album in a remote log cabin amidst a writer's block. Take caution, however. These woods were never empty...
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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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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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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.