Single-player games like Dead Awake
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Awake, 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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Echograph
Single-player alternative to Dead Awake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Awake.
photograph ghosts, crack environmental puzzles, manage limited resources, and unravel the mystery behind a generational family curse in this classic survival horror experience.
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Tormented Souls 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Awake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Awake.
Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.
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DAY OF THE RISING DEAD
Single-player alternative to Dead Awake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Awake.
Step into a gritty, analog film-style world where three survivors must battle their way through a planet overrun by the undead. From the dark alleys of a crumbling city to eerie forests, an abandoned military outpost, and a blood-soaked shopping mall, every step is a fight for survival.
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Fear The Timeloop
Single-player alternative to Dead Awake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Awake.
Sheriff James Cooper is slowly bleeding to death in an unfamiliar hospital. But the moment his life ends, everything starts over. He has fifteen minutes to break this endless cycle, uncover the truth, and find a way out before it's too late.
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Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial
Single-player alternative to Dead Awake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Awake.
Survive a twisted bureaucratic nightmare where every resource counts. Battle corrupted officials and solve psychological puzzles. Your choices shape multiple endings as you fight to prove your innocence.
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Backrooms: Echo
Single-player alternative to Dead Awake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Awake.
A co-op horror for 1–4 players inspired by the Backrooms. Procedurally generated levels, terrifying entities, and a realistic atmosphere powered by Unreal Engine 5. Every playthrough is a unique experience. Try to find the way out, but don’t trust everything you hear and see.
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Flesh Made Fear
Single-player alternative to Dead Awake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Awake.
Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.
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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to Dead Awake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Awake.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
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Carnival Massacre
Single-player alternative to Dead Awake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Awake.
Drawing heavily from classic survival horror tropes, Carnival Massacre takes players on a haunting quest in a cursed theme park. Explore your surroundings, manage your messy inventory, solve puzzles and kill the four ringleaders of the park!