Single-player games like The Whisperer in Darkness
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Whisperer in Darkness, 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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The Last Door - Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Whisperer in Darkness.
Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England. Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Whisperer in Darkness.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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The Innsmouth Case
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Whisperer in Darkness.
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Whisperer in Darkness.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Whisperer in Darkness.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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The Miskatonic
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Whisperer in Darkness.
Explore the most prestigious occult school in North America, The Miskatonic University, in a hilarious dark comedy set after the Lovecraft canon, in which the greatest threat to mankind is its own ambitions.
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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Whisperer in Darkness.
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Whisperer in Darkness.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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FLIES FLIES FLIES
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Whisperer in Darkness.
6-episode visual novel. One day, Finn Flynn wakes up in the body of a housefly. Without the use of his voice, he'll have to enlist his prankster ex-boyfriend, and his dads, an insectophobic mad scientist and a punk rocker, to solve the mystery of his transformation, and maybe get his life back?