Single-player games like Netherwake
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Netherwake, 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
- 1
Memories Loaming
Single-player alternative to Netherwake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Netherwake.
A horror anthology about people working along a remote highway in Labrador, Canada. Try to remain balanced and lucid at your normal job. Also, there's a bear.
- 2
Matchstick: Cosmic Flame
Single-player alternative to Netherwake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Netherwake.
A time and space bending cosmic intelligence has found its way to Earth. Your family has been taken. Travel through wormholes, explore nightmarish environments, solve unearthly puzzles, and combat demonic entities to defeat the interstellar parasite known as the MATCH.
- 3
Fall Into Insanity
Single-player alternative to Netherwake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Netherwake.
You play as Samuel Whittaker, a 19 year old college student who likes to get into trouble. How will he handle the situation when his friends go missing and he is the only one that can find them. Will he find them alive or will he be too late..
- 4
Room 817: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Netherwake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Netherwake.
Welcome to one of the scariest old-school horror games. Here, you're not the predator, but the prey. Any mistake will cost you your life. Hide, solve puzzles, explore, and embrace the inevitable terror. The Ancient horror lurks, awaiting you. Based on true events.
- 5
Swine's Revenge
Single-player alternative to Netherwake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Netherwake.
Enter the dark and twisted world of Swine's Revenge, a first-person horror game. Play as a police officer investigating disappearances around a secluded farm. What starts as a routine case quickly descends into a nightmare as you uncover sinister secrets lurking in the shadows.
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Welcome to Lightford
Single-player alternative to Netherwake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Netherwake.
Investigate a supernatural conspiracy in a 90s town hiding something far worse than secrets. Travel between 1990 and its ruined 1995 future, photograph anomalies, decode entities, and survive a town that doesn't want you here. Think outside the box. Every problem has more than one solution.
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Downware
Single-player alternative to Netherwake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Netherwake.
Where is Lucy? Your girlfriend is not at home at the time of your meeting. Could the Mark-13 cyclops, who enforces martial law, have something to do with it? Find out by diving into the dark and immersive world of Downware, a first-person Cyberpunk horror game.
- 8
Remnants of R'lyeh
Single-player alternative to Netherwake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Netherwake.
Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Great Work. An ancient dark power is calling you and you need to find an exit. Face your greatest fear, fight, hide... you must escape before the underwater city rises...
- 9
The Mare of Jonah
Single-player alternative to Netherwake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Netherwake.
A first-person psychological horror game where a young boy is trapped in a haunted, decaying mansion. Run, hide, and outsmart vengeful spirits as you uncover dark, twisted secrets. Can you survive the nightmare that waits in every shadow?