Single-player games like • Dread Chess ✣
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to • Dread Chess ✣, 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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Argumentum ad culpam
Single-player alternative to • Dread Chess ✣ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with • Dread Chess ✣.
Argumentum ad culpam is a gothic visual novel about the world of eternal agony. A capricious dance of principles and death. Take part in twisted battles of wits, where morality is only a tool for survival, and decide what future that world will have.
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Stitched HD
Single-player alternative to • Dread Chess ✣ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with • Dread Chess ✣.
A pleasantly anticipated trip back home for the holidays becomes a nightmare for Catherine as a tragic accident leaves her unconscious. After coming to her senses, she realizes that something is dreadfully wrong. She must escape the doll factory she awoke in before it's too late.
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BURN
Single-player alternative to • Dread Chess ✣ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with • Dread Chess ✣.
A short zero-gravity horror game where you investigate a religious research station gone silent.
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STAY
Single-player alternative to • Dread Chess ✣ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with • Dread Chess ✣.
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Single-player alternative to • Dread Chess ✣ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with • Dread Chess ✣.
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
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Night Loops
Single-player alternative to • Dread Chess ✣ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with • Dread Chess ✣.
Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.
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Saint Kotar
Single-player alternative to • Dread Chess ✣ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with • Dread Chess ✣.
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
Single-player alternative to • Dread Chess ✣ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with • Dread Chess ✣.
A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of serial killer H.H. Holmes ‘Murder Castle’. But on arrival they soon discover they’re being watched, and even manipulated, and suddenly there is much more at stake than just their ratings…