Single-player games like Descent Into Darkness
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Descent Into Darkness, 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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Acatalepsy
Single-player alternative to Descent Into Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Into Darkness.
Welcome to Acatalepsy, a new take on the liminal space experience. Progress deeper into varying liminal spaces with your team. Complete various tasks to continue forward, dive deeper, and don't expect to survive for long. You aren't alone in these spaces; nowhere is safe.
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LandFall Survival
Single-player alternative to Descent Into Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Into Darkness.
Landfall is a thrilling low-poly co-op dungeon crawler and extraction game. Build and upgrade your base, trade with vendors, and team up to explore diverse maps, complete quests, gather loot, and defeat bosses. Gear up, survive, and thrive together in this unique low-poly PvE adventure.
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Floor44
Single-player alternative to Descent Into Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Into Darkness.
Floor44 is a hardcore luckiness detector kinda game with randomly generated maps, the goal is to make it to the top floor. You can rely on your skills to reach floor30, but you'll need more than that to make it to Floor44.
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TOXICANT
Single-player alternative to Descent Into Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Into Darkness.
TOXICANT offers a sinister twist on the survival horror genre, featuring randomized levels and roguelike elements.
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Backrooms: No Level
Single-player alternative to Descent Into Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Into Darkness.
Backrooms: No Level is a cooperative horror game for 1–4 players. You think you can complete anything, but what if you can't? What if nothing is real and you can't complete anything, even with friends, it will be extremely difficult to complete this game!
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The Fear Island
Single-player alternative to Descent Into Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Into Darkness.
The Fear Island is an online co-op survival horror game where players accidentally land on an island full of supernatural entities and need to find an escape vehicle and its necessary resources.
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Beware the Depths
Single-player alternative to Descent Into Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Into Darkness.
A co-op horror about pushing a soul-powered funeral cart through a haunted dungeon for 1-4 players. Feed it souls, survive the dark, and get out before something gets you.
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Train 404
Single-player alternative to Descent Into Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Into Darkness.
A first-person co-op horror game where you collect coins, find the Golden Ticket, and race back to the train while monsters close in.