Single-player games like DARQ: Complete Edition
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to DARQ: Complete Edition, 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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Locks
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DARQ: Complete Edition.
Locks is a horror puzzle-platformer set in a puppet show. The game features a new type of puzzle, and the evil doesn't chase the puppet, as it usually does in platformers, it chases you.
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Little Nightmares
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DARQ: Complete Edition.
Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
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ASTRAL
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DARQ: Complete Edition.
The future came. You'd think that means the apex of the progress and science, but no. After the epidemic spread all over the world in 2022, 95% of the whole population mutated into horrible creatures without any moral values or humanity and started hunting everything that moves. The planet became empty.
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Stela
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DARQ: Complete Edition.
Stela is a cinematic, atmospheric platformer about a young woman witnessing the final days of a mysterious ancient world.
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Fear the Spotlight
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DARQ: Complete Edition.
Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…
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YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DARQ: Complete Edition.
As long as I have dreams in my heart, I can never escape. I can never awaken from my dreams. Maybe if I follow the dream just past this doorway, then someday I can wake up again...
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DYSTHANASIA
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DARQ: Complete Edition.
You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.
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Black The Fall
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DARQ: Complete Edition.
After decades of toil, an old machinist plots his escape from Communism, through manipulation and scheming. Along the road, he befriends the most unlikely creature, an abandoned robot. Could they solve the puzzles and flee this bleak world together?
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LIMBO
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DARQ: Complete Edition.
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
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INSIDE
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DARQ: Complete Edition.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
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Crypt- The Black Tower
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DARQ: Complete Edition.
Crypt is a 3rd person click to move adventure based RPG that takes you deep into the ancient and forgotten places of a long dead world. rise as an un-dead skeleton and begin your war path of magical carnage.
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No More Heroes
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DARQ: Complete Edition.
Fight your way to the top in this HD remaster of everyone's favorite assassin action game! As all-American otaku Travis Touchdown, use your trusty beam katana to hack-and-slash though the competition and claim the title of world's #1 assassin!
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Towers of Thana
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with DARQ: Complete Edition.
Towers of Thana is an action & strategy game where you invoke magic and summon towers to defend mythologies against a dark corruption. Travel to their homelands and rally legendary gods and creatures to your cause against Ogur, a God turned evil, and his corruption.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DARQ: Complete Edition.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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The Tower
Single-player alternative to DARQ: Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Play a simple dungeon grinder RPG! Choose your character, customize their class and name, and delve into randomly selected dungeons filled with enemies and treasure. Gather loot, and gear up at The Tower's Guild to tackle higher floors..