Single-player games like NightCry
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to NightCry, 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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Scare: Project of Fear
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Scare: Project of Fear is a survival horror game in which you must escape a murderous monster in an old Japanese mansion.
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Maroxyn Drarea
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NightCry.
Find your way through a dark, confusing, and hostile world with only three spells. Use them carefully, survive what they attract, and escape Maroxyn - if you can.
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Reclusive
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Robert Livingston sails to a remote northern island to spend the last days of his life there and encounters unexplained phenomena and creatures.
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MAEVOR
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
MAEVOR is a 1-4 player co-op horror game set in a cursed forest where every sound can get you killed. Recover three ancient artifacts, break the Harpy Vampire Demon's curse, and survive against creatures that hunt by sound while fear distorts your senses.
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Broken Lights
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
The holiday spirit is broken. On Christmas Eve, 10-year-old Seth's guilt manifests as the legendary criature. Explore a claustrophobic, home twisted by paranoia. Can you survive the warped echoes of your family and burn the evidence of your sin before your heart stops?
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The Count Lucanor
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.
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Those Who Remain
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.
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Asleep: Act 1
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Immersed in her nightmares, in a chaotic reality, confused and all alone. The only safe place is her room, but not forever... She wanders through an empty city and strange places while fleeing from creatures lurking in the darkness to find out what's going on. You are in the skin of Ana Lúcia.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NightCry.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NightCry.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Clock Tower: Rewind
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NightCry.
The 16-bit nightmare returns. Survive, hide, and avoid the deadly Scissorman in this legendary horror classic.
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Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
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Hunting grounds
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Hunting grounds - Take on a fleet of space pirates as you pilot your starship in this arcade shoot'em up! Blow up enemies and collect bonuses in the vastness of the vast space and break new score records. How far can you go on this adventure?
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İblis3:Phenomena
Single-player alternative to NightCry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
İBLİS 3: PHENOMENA is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious house set in realistic, slow-paced, atmospheric, and disturbing environments. It contains no puzzle or exploration elements; it is entirely built on tension and psychological pressure.