Single-player games like The Dark Rites of Arkham
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to The Dark Rites of Arkham, 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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Abscission
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.
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Single Malt Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Save the sleepy mining town from a cosmic threat in this late 80s-style adventure with RPG elements. Retro to the core!
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Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah is a first-person, micro-adventure game that tells the story of P.I. Jim Morrison's encounters with the occult and the extraordinary. Explore your surroundings and solve puzzles in order to uncover the harrowing story of your friend's descent into insanity.
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Finally Free
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Play as Jonny, the most stereotypical, flat and generic protagonist you can encounter in a video game. Explore the nightmare that he didn't choose to live through and seal his fate with your decisions.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
The Sherlock Holmes series returns with this updated version of The Awakened, which brings a whole new dimension to the original title developed by Frogwares. The game puts the player into an investigation of the Cthulhu Mythos - as imagined by Father of modern horror, H.P. Lovecraft.
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The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Beekeeper (and former world’s greatest detective) Sherlock Holmes is arranging a surprise picnic for his friend Watson. Unfortunately pesky mysteries keep getting in the way! Explore, find clues and interrogate your neighbours in this cosy point and click adventure!
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Strange Horticulture
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
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Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
A mining station in the Pacific abyss is no longer responding. As an investigator of the occult, unravel the mysteries of the deep. Test your wits and sanity in this lovecraftian thriller.
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Nightmare Frames
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Nightmare Frames is a supernatural thriller where you'll step into the shoes of Alan Goldberg, in the search for the scariest horror film of all time. An enthralling journey through the streets of the Hollywood of the 80s, a small haunted town, and even Hell itself.
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Project Warlock II
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Adrenaline-pumping gore retro funhouse that’s full of guns, magic, demons, vertical arenas, 3D visuals, 2D sprites, and heavy metal music. Inspired by FPS classics like Quake and Doom 64, Project Warlock II is the explosive boomer shooter sequel you were too shy to ask for.
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Dreams in the Witch House
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Navigate the eerie world of Dreams in the Witch House, a unique blend of point-and-click and RPG-adventure. Unravel occult mysteries in Arkham, maintain your sanity, and survive the May-Eve in this Lovecraftian horror game.
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Witch Story
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In a kingdom, there is a witch who lives off the beaten track. She is busy with alchemy, potion-making, fortune-telling ,frightening people and other magic..They say she has already lived for a few centuries here. The local lord is fed up with such neighbourhood...
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An English Haunting
Single-player alternative to The Dark Rites of Arkham — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
While looking for the existence of the Great Beyond, Professor Patrick Moore, aided by a fake medium, will build a device to see the other side, embark on a search for a millenary artifact, and investigate the most haunted manor of 1907 England.