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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Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Whisperer in Darkness.
At long last, the works of H.P. Lovecraft meet the medium of RPG in a spectacle of light and sound befitting an old western. Only this is set in New England. Meet interesting people! See astounding wonders! Enslave humanity! Go on one date side quest in a game subtitled a dating simulator!
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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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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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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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Virginia
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Whisperer in Darkness.
Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.
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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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Scanner Sombre
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Whisperer in Darkness.
Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to The Whisperer in Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Whisperer in Darkness.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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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?