Single-player games like Take the Dream IX
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Take the Dream IX, 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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ShyChess
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
ShyChess is a puzzle game where the ShyGirls must cross through chessboards avoiding dangerous zones, marked by thechess pieces attack patterns. Go through room to room while discovering more about the ShyGirls history, escape with as many of them as you can.
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Please Love My Computer Game
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
She waits. Explore an abandoned house in black and white as you solve cryptic puzzles and try to make discoveries. If you like to work with others to discover things, then you may like this game. I hope you love it, I really hope you do.
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Silver Island
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
The hood has been infested with a plague of creeps and uglies. Zombies ate your cat and you're out for revenge. However, what started as a simple mission to bludgeon, dismember and hack to pieces the hordes of hell unfolds into an epic quest through the slums, graveyards, 99-cent stores, whorehouses and polluted lakes of Silver island in...
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Welcome to the Game
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Sexual Content with Take the Dream IX.
Welcome to the Game is a creepy horror/puzzle game that takes you into the world of the Deep Web. Explore the Deep Web with the sole purpose of trying to find a Red Room, an online service / website that allows you to see and participate in interactive torture and murder.
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Gachimuchi Reloaded
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
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Damage: Sadistic Butchering of Humanity
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
Idea of Damage is simple: kill as many people as possible! Damage is a black humor 2D action adventure game where you roam freely in a wide urban setting killing thousands of enemies. New Arcade-mode lets you quickly get into action, try different weapons and drugs.
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Brave
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
This is a MOD game, different MOD will have different gameplay, RPG/FPS, and so on.
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Stay Woke Etheral Edition
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
After experiencing a traumatic accident, you awake to find yourself in a strange, new, and dynamic foggy town, that is filled to the brim with oddities and quirks. Players will experience a little yet big tale about what goes on in the afterlife.
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Close Your Eyes
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
An anthology of 7 horror tales within a connected universe. Join a murderous marshmallow bound by their past down an atmospheric descent, brought into question by an odd game show host. Follow a Witch trying to seduce her love with sweet things. Plus 5 other surprisingly twisted yet emotional tales.
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Red Haze
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
You know, my dear, it isn't safe... To wander and creep while oh so weak. In the abandoned, the rotten, the decayed. Society has forgotten you; it won't lift a finger for that which is tossed away. You're just prey that the true prowlers who lay in shadows await to feast upon.
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Close Me
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
You start the game, you wake up, and eventually you will close the game. One day, you may even start the game again. That's the game.
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![Close Your Eyes [Old Version] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/377330/c8d8c555e37e28190ecd34dae23ca4b0d73ce5bc/header.jpg?t=1746732306)
Close Your Eyes [Old Version]
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.
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The Miserable Crimson Hooded Girl
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
Once upon a time, there was a miserable girl in a crimson hood. Her mother was unwell, so the girl was sent away to go stay with her grandmother, who lived deep within the woods in a strange house. People say that around those parts there resides a monster called the Gobbler, who preys on the weak...
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PeeTee Babybuu
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
Down the road, the neighbors knew...
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Feast Your Eyes
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
A surreal and quiet horror tale about a murderous little marshmallow who's escaped death row. A mysterious plague that makes people stare at dirt... Creepy love letters trying to win your affection... You may have closed your eyes, but now it's time to feast.
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Found Horror Game 101.exe
Single-player alternative to Take the Dream IX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Take the Dream IX.
You'll scream in pleasure... Choke with fear! Play through 101 sick, frightening and perverted games, released in an experimental episodic format Can the curious souls brave through the hidden depths of each game to reach the shocking conclusion? Maybe what's been lost was never meant to be found...