Single-player games like The Dark Curiosity
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Dark Curiosity, 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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Project Miasma: Prelude
Single-player alternative to The Dark Curiosity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dark Curiosity.
A first-person sci-fi survival horror game. Board abandoned ships, explore their dark corridors, uncover what happened to their crews, and survive threats you cannot fight as something watches from the dark.
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No Haste
Single-player alternative to The Dark Curiosity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Curiosity.
No Haste is a survival horror game. Sneak into a shopping mall to steal, be discreet and smart and don't get caught by the Rist creature!
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Investigation
Single-player alternative to The Dark Curiosity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Curiosity.
Solve the case, face twisted monsters, and pray you make it out alive.
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Pyrami Head
Single-player alternative to The Dark Curiosity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Curiosity.
We are trying to escape from a dark and extremely disturbing mysterious place. We are trying to rescue our character, who has lost his memory and is waiting to be sacrificed, without getting caught by the enemies around and open the hidden areas of the room by exploring the surroundings.
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Mortal Decay
Single-player alternative to The Dark Curiosity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Curiosity.
You are a veteran, in a post World War 3 apocalyptic world. Starving and alone, you fight to keep your sanity in the hell that this world has decayed into. In a desperate attempt to find food, you stumble your way into an abandoned prison, but you find out it is not as abandoned as you believed...
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Dire Echo
Single-player alternative to The Dark Curiosity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Curiosity.
Dire Echo is a psychological horror walking simulator that immerses players in the eerie and oppressive atmosphere of abandoned deep space.
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Forget
Single-player alternative to The Dark Curiosity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Curiosity.
Immerse yourself in a living nightmare where every dark corner of the apartment hides terrifying secrets. Wake up without memories, Pursued by an enigmatic presence, and discover the truth about a missing child. Reality or illusion? It's up to you to unravel the inexplicable.
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to The Dark Curiosity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Dark Curiosity.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.