Single-player games like School of Nightmares
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to School of Nightmares, 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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Treasure Hunters
Single-player alternative to School of Nightmares — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
Treasure Hunters is an intense CO-OP treasure-hunting game for up to 4 players, set in mysterious dungeons filled with puzzles, platforms, and deadly creatures, where your goal is to find and steal the most valuable treasures in the world.
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Treasure Hunters: Prologue
Single-player alternative to School of Nightmares — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
Treasure Hunters: Prologue is a free version of 'Treasure Hunters', an intense, co-op treasure-hunting game set in mysterious dungeons filled with puzzles, platforms, and deadly creatures, where your goal is to find and steal the most valuable treasures
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Outland Rapture
Single-player alternative to School of Nightmares — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
A stealth coop story driven game that mix lost vikings mechanics with the mood of inside. Three strangers wake up in a mysterious place and working together without being noticed is the only way to survive all the dangers and return home.
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Supraworld
Single-player alternative to School of Nightmares — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
Zero hand-holding. Dismantle this dense open-world of unconventional puzzles by thinking outside the box and exploiting every ability you discover. Solve mysteries hidden in plain sight where every piece of supposed decoration has a purpose.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to School of Nightmares — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to School of Nightmares — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to School of Nightmares — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
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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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to School of Nightmares — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.