Single-player games like The Forgotten Nightmare Series
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Forgotten Nightmare Series, 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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Alcyone: The Last City
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Nightmare Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten Nightmare Series.
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
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Rusts Of Corruption
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Nightmare Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten Nightmare Series.
You've mysteriously awoken on an isolated island on an unknown world. A corrupting force spreads through the island, leaving only a short amount of time to learn about the islands mysteries... Who will you meet? What will you learn? Are you ready to see the world die?
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Upheaval
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Nightmare Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten Nightmare Series.
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
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DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Nightmare Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten Nightmare Series.
DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.
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Arcadia Fallen
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Nightmare Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten Nightmare Series.
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Nightmare Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten Nightmare Series.
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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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Nightmare Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten Nightmare Series.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
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VIDEOVERSE
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Nightmare Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten Nightmare Series.
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…