Single-player games like 2Dark
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to 2Dark, 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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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to 2Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with 2Dark.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Trench Face
Single-player alternative to 2Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 2Dark.
Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner. Every enemy varying in strengths and weaknesses. Escape the trench with your life.
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Lamentum
Single-player alternative to 2Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 2Dark.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Dead of Darkness
Single-player alternative to 2Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 2Dark.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to 2Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 2Dark.
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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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to 2Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with 2Dark.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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The Evil Within 2
Single-player alternative to 2Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with 2Dark.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to 2Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 2Dark.
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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POSTAL
Single-player alternative to 2Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 2Dark.
Take control of The POSTAL Dude in his infamous first outing as he battles to survive in a world gone mad! POSTAL is a classic isometric shooter filled to the brim with fast-paced explosive action.