Single-player games like Dead Tapes: Fading Father
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Tapes: Fading Father, 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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AFTERLIGHT: The Apartment
Single-player alternative to Dead Tapes: Fading Father — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Tapes: Fading Father.
Explore an early-2000s Korean apartment complex in this short first-person psychological horror experience.
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Somnesis: The PSX Tapes
Single-player alternative to Dead Tapes: Fading Father — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Tapes: Fading Father.
A 2000s psychological horror game about a young girl who uncovers a box of cursed 90s VHS cartridges in her new home. Play eerie PSX-style retro games on a CRT monitor while simultaneously managing threats in your dark bedroom. Balance nostalgic retro gameplay with real-time survival.
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The Arcade
Single-player alternative to Dead Tapes: Fading Father — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Tapes: Fading Father.
The Arcade is a PSX-style psychological horror story game. You play as Trevor, an owner of a dying arcade in the early 2000s. As Trevor struggles to keep the arcade running, memories of his past begin to haunt him. What happened to the place he left behind? And why does he blame himself for it?
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Nightmare Collection: Telephone Call
Single-player alternative to Dead Tapes: Fading Father — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Tapes: Fading Father.
Telephone Call is a short horror story about receiving strange phone call during a party.
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These Roads are Terminal
Single-player alternative to Dead Tapes: Fading Father — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Tapes: Fading Father.
Step into the shoes of a wage-slave and work the graveyard delivery shift at Vito's! It's not glamorous, but it pays rent. Leave the safety of your car and step into the streets of a decaying suburbia. Deliver to peculiar customers while trying to ignore that feeling of being watched...
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SPIRITGRAPHER: THE ASYLUM 99
Single-player alternative to Dead Tapes: Fading Father — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Tapes: Fading Father.
This first-person horror detective. You are a spiritgrapher, your camera can see what is beyond the reach of the human eye. Head to an abandoned hospital and shoot a report about supernatural events.
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Invasion of The Halloween Fiends
Single-player alternative to Dead Tapes: Fading Father — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Tapes: Fading Father.
Invasion of The Halloween Fiends is a First-Person Retro horror game that takes place on Halloween Night. Strangers keep visiting you looking for candy. Some of them may not be so friendly. Will you be able to survive Halloween Night?
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Cave Crawler
Single-player alternative to Dead Tapes: Fading Father — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dead Tapes: Fading Father.
Cave Crawler is a short horror game where you pilot a drone into a cave and discover something horrible.
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Creepy Peepy
Single-player alternative to Dead Tapes: Fading Father — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Tapes: Fading Father.
Swampy Bob Psychiatric Clinic is a place where fear knows no bounds. During the day, meet new friends, talk to patients, solve mysteries, and take your pills. At night, hide from monsters and try to survive until morning.