Single-player games like They Cry
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to They Cry, 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 Night
Single-player alternative to They Cry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Cry.
Project Night is a first-person survival horror game focused on exploration, tense combat, and atmosphere. Search abandoned locations, manage scarce resources, solve environmental puzzles, and survive the horrors lurking in the dark.
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Waking Dreams
Single-player alternative to They Cry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Cry.
A survival horror game that blends exploration, puzzles, resource management and combat.
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Resident Evil 2 (1998)
Single-player alternative to They Cry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with They Cry.
Command Leon S. Kennedy, a rookie cop who stumbles onto the carnage reporting for his first duty, or play as Claire Redfield, desperately searching for her missing brother. Cutting edge 3-D accelerated graphics that create a terrifying, photo-realistic experience.
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Giraffe Town
Single-player alternative to They Cry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Cry.
A giraffe born with slippery feet sets out to find love...
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Welcome to Hanwell
Single-player alternative to They Cry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Cry.
Open world horror set in a city in which your worst nightmares have become an everyday part of life. Explore a dense open world of terror, every building a unique location with it's own story to tell. Strung together by the remenants of Hanwell.
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DreadOut
Single-player alternative to They Cry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with They Cry.
DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.
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The Coma: Recut
Single-player alternative to They Cry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Cry.
You are Youngho, a Korean high school student trapped and relentlessly pursued by a psychotic killer in the hellish corridors of Sehwa High. Run, hide, explore, and survive while piecing together the mystery The Coma in this remastered version of the Korean cult classic.
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SIGNALIS
Single-player alternative to They Cry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Cry.
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.