Single-player games like Dead Secret
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Secret, 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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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Single-player alternative to Dead Secret — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Myst
Single-player alternative to Dead Secret — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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Don't Knock Twice
Single-player alternative to Dead Secret — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. One knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. Supports VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for the ultimate horror experience!
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DESOLATIUM: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Dead Secret — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
DESOLATIUM: PROLOGUE is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to Dead Secret — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
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The Assembly
Single-player alternative to Dead Secret — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
A first-person interactive story inspired by real-world anxieties, The Assembly is a long-form game designed for VR. Explore a morally ambiguous organization as two individuals and face tough decisions from contrasting perspectives, that culminate in one of multiple thrilling conclusions.
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Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
Single-player alternative to Dead Secret — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.
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Escape First 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Secret — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
"Escape First 2" is the second installment of a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.
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The Painscreek Killings
Single-player alternative to Dead Secret — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?
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Dead Secret Circle
Single-player alternative to Dead Secret — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
DEAD SECRET CIRCLE is a horror mystery set in Chicago in 1971. In this sequel to the critically acclaimed DEAD SECRET, reality and dreams collide as investigative reporter Patricia Gable sees beyond the flesh to chase a killer with a grisly M.O. Track the killer, narrow the suspects, and above all, stay alive.
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Beacon's Bluff
Single-player alternative to Dead Secret — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Beacon's Bluff is a 2D pressure puzzler with horror elements. Keep the beacon's light alive and survive your shift by solving intriguing puzzles. Become engrossed in this discerning horror puzzler.
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SEEING THINGS
Single-player alternative to Dead Secret — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dead Secret.
Full tilt surveillance horror. Keep your eyes locked on security cameras for an outrageous collection of horrific anomalies, suspicious movement, and the occasional T-Rex. Observe, detect, survive!