Single-player games like Darkwood 2
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Darkwood 2, 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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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Darkwood 2.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Bleak Faith: Forsaken
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.
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Pathologic Classic HD
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped.
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Ad Infinitum
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Step into a dark reimagination of Arthurian legends in this first person, open world RPG. Explore a world stuck in everlasting autumn, witness falling legends and make meaningful choices woven into a complex, branching storyline.
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Slender: The Arrival
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
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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We Happy Few
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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Pathologic 2
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood 2.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood 2.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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Knock-knock
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Darkwood 2.
There is an unusual cabin deep in the woods. It had served as a laboratory and a dwelling for three generations of Lodgers.But as of late the latest Lodger has been noticing weird changes in familiar surroundings; things are missing, noises and rattle heard. Something odd is coming out of the woods.
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The Void
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Only brought to life by scarce sparks of Color, the bleak, grey Void is a peculiar place. The player gets to explore it, get to know the Sisters, Brothers, and other weird creatures inhabiting it, and learn the ways of Color, harvesting it and drawing sigils that change the world around them.
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Know by heart
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship. However, something beyond their control will ruin this reunion.
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Cargo! The Quest for Gravity
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Create crazy, yet functional, custom vehicles to solve missions with your own unique style!
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Pathologic 3: Quarantine
Single-player alternative to Darkwood 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood 2.
In this free prologue to a narrative-driven adventure, watch a mysterious plague break out in a small town. Learn what drove a celebrated academic to leave his acclaimed lab. Examine patients, uncover strange secrets, and make first steps towards immortality.