Single-player games like The Dark Between
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Dark Between, 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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Tear Factory
Single-player alternative to The Dark Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
A game about hunting rats, feeding them to your family, and going to bed.
- 2
Barbotine
Single-player alternative to The Dark Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.
- 3
The Rain Spirit : Code Breaker
Single-player alternative to The Dark Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
An atmospheric, folk-horror adventure game about uncovering hidden codes in a cursed rain-soaked world. A blend of adventure, fantasy and horror. Uncover a huge interactive world filled with codes , clues and puzzles to unlock in different areas.
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Tormenture
Single-player alternative to The Dark Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
Tormenture is a psychological horror game where you play as a child trapped in a cursed 8-bit game with a dark secret. To survive, you must find four relics and solve reality-blurring puzzles. But beware—some creatures may escape the game and haunt you in the real world. A game within a game.
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Navicula Meatus
Single-player alternative to The Dark Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Between.
A dark and surreal puzzle adventure set in a decaying town where veins pulse through ruined structures and the night hums with unfamiliar life.
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Kairo
Single-player alternative to The Dark Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
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Lake Haven - Chrysalis
Single-player alternative to The Dark Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dark Between.
This game serves as a prequel chapter for the upcoming game 'Lake Haven'. Detective Zeke Reynold is called to investigate what he assumes will be another case he'll quickly forget, but what he finds will be sewn into the fabric of his existence forever.
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HORROR TALES: The Beggar
Single-player alternative to The Dark Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
Control space-time to fight an evil monster in this terror and science fiction journey set in a shattered but beautiful world. Bend physics, the sky and the earth itself in engaging boss-fight encounters with the full power of Unreal Engine 5 and Nvidia DLSS.