Single-player games like Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward, 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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SCP: Project Pneuma
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward.
The Foundation has fallen. Site-63 is gone. You are Dr Alexander - and whatever is hunting you knows exactly where you're going. SCP: Project Pneuma. A psychological survival horror experience set during the collapse of everything
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Alone at School:Christmas
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward.
Alone at School: Christmas is an atmospheric horror walking simulator. Arriving at school before everyone else on Christmas morning, you soon realize that someone, or something, is already waiting for you in the empty halls.
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The Strange Lights
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward.
You have arrived in a forest where people are rumored to disappear and strange things happen... Locals often see bright flashes and hear strange sounds...
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Y. Village - The Visitors
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward.
Batu, tormented by nightmares, is lured to a nameless village via cryptic letters. Investigating the village's secrets with just one friend, he wakes one night to discover his ally gone. He must now locate his friend and elude the village's dark mysteries.
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In The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward.
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."
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Arrogation: Unlight of Day
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward.
Arrogation: Unlight of Day is a psychological horror game set in World War II. You will play as a lone reporter searching for his lost family in an abandoned village from 80s China. Beyond darkness, you will find nightmarish creatures and secrets from the long lost Imperial Japanese Army.
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Clink
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
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The Dark Gift
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward.
The Dark Gift is a horror game about Christmas and New Year.
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I AM COFFEEE!
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Play as a sentient coffee machine in a dark comedy office game where every choice fuels productivity, panic, and workplace chaos.
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Until the Fire Dies
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward.
A first-person survival horror game where you chop trees and split logs by day, then keep the fire alive through the night as horrors close in beyond its light.
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The Hundredth Gear
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward.
Build the legendary Hundredth Gear, a 100-stage mechanical machine, in this first-person incremental game. Start with your own two hands, then research, upgrade and automate your growing creation as you chase the impossible: 10¹⁰⁰ rotations. What happens if you actually reach it?
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Pull Until It Breaks
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward.
Push everyday materials to their breaking point in a destructive-testing simulation game with incremental progression. Apply force, earn Research, upgrade your machine, unlock new specimens, and discover which breaks first: the specimen or the machine?