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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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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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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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Nightmare Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten Nightmare Series.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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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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Her Story
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Nightmare Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten Nightmare Series.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
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Mewgenics
Single-player alternative to The Forgotten Nightmare Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten Nightmare Series.
Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
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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…