Single-player games like Despair
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Despair, 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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![[Bober Bros] The Hole — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3037930/header.jpg?t=1739027007)
[Bober Bros] The Hole
Single-player alternative to Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair.
[Bober Bros] The Hole is a first-person horror game that explores the cracks in domestic life. Your neighbor’s drilling starts the nightmare, but the holes reveal dark secrets far deeper than any wall could hide. No cheap scares, only disturbing reality.
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The Hat Man: Shadow Ward
Single-player alternative to Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair.
Based on a true story, discover the horror of the Canton insane asylum as you attempt to rescue your daughter. Experience the scariest game of 2014.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Narcosis
Single-player alternative to Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Despair.
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
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Neverending Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair.
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
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Near Death
Single-player alternative to Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair.
Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.
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DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Despair.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Despair.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Single-player alternative to Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
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Uriel's Chasm
Single-player alternative to Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Despair.
Religious de-programming tool
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System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
Single-player alternative to Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair.
System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.