Single-player games like The Dead
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Dead, 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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弃层凶谈
Single-player alternative to The Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dead.
Curse Of The Abandoned Floor is a first-person Chinese horror game. It starts with a paranormal video about an urban legend: "Beware the non-existent elevator mezzanine. If you enter it, you will be trapped forever."
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Turn Back Now
Single-player alternative to The Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Dead.
Survival horror RPG where you investigate, explore, and endure dynamic psychological threats as a rookie officer. Manage resources, make critical choices, and survive horrific encounters in a tense, atmospheric third-person experience.
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门 The Door
Single-player alternative to The Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dead.
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- 4
Airtight City 密闭之城1.0
Single-player alternative to The Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dead.
This is a TPS, horror-type action shooting game. The game will draw players into a terrifying dark world with detailed atmosphere rendering and weird story. Here, you are not defenseless, but even with a gun, you can't suppress the trembling from the heart. Game revenue is used for 2.0 development.
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The Sinking City 2
Single-player alternative to The Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dead.
Set in the Roaring '20s, The Sinking City 2 is a survival horror steeped in Lovecraftian dread. Defy an eldritch deity and explore the drowned alleys of Arkham, stalked by the dead, as you weigh one life against an entire city.
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Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Single-player alternative to The Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dead.
An Oni Gauntlet-wielding samurai makes a stand in Kyoto against the encroaching Genma menace. Through gritty, blood-soaked brawls, he searches for his reason to fight. What fate awaits at the end of his path?
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Maneater
Single-player alternative to The Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dead.
Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!
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Vampyr
Single-player alternative to The Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Dead.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.