Single-player games like Condemned: Criminal Origins
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Condemned: Criminal Origins, 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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Manhunt
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.
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Butcher's Creek
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
A first person melee horror game where you use rusty tools to brutalize a gang of serial torturers in the remote Appalachian Forest.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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DOOM 3
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
A demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars research facility. As one of only a few survivors, you must fight your way to hell and back against a horde of demons in this award-winning horror/action FPS and reimagining of the original DOOM.
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F.E.A.R.
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.
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Cry of Fear
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
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The Darkness II
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
An intense first person shooter that delivers a twisted and gripping narrative of tragedy, modern crime drama, and supernatural horror.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
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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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.
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The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
The Darkness is the Game that will keep you in constant tension. You have to play for Wilson Walker who decided to return to his old country house, away from the big city. But then our hero discovers that in his house there are some oddities.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Alone in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.
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>observer_
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
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F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Single-player alternative to Condemned: Criminal Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Assume the role of Special Forces Sgt. Becket as your routine mission quickly turns into a fight for survival against the wrath of Alma Wade. As Alma's terrifying power surges out of control, your squad is forced to battle through an apocalyptic landscape in search of clues for how to destroy her!