Single-player games like Dark Collection: El and Ellie
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dark Collection: El and Ellie, 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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The Abandoned Levels
Single-player alternative to Dark Collection: El and Ellie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Collection: El and Ellie.
After personal tragedy, you fall into the nightmarish Backrooms. Navigate handcrafted levels, evade deadly creatures, and cling to your sanity. Find the exit – and the answer to whether survival is worth the struggle at all.
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Auditum
Single-player alternative to Dark Collection: El and Ellie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Collection: El and Ellie.
Auditum is a top-down atmospheric survival horror game about a blind teenager searching for his father in a post-collapse Madrid overrun by the undead. Echolocate through ruined streets, stay hidden, and survive knowing every sound could be your last.
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Dead Memories: Left Behind
Single-player alternative to Dark Collection: El and Ellie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Collection: El and Ellie.
A girl. A store. A silence that never ends. The world outside is broken, but the paths within are worse. Every choice feels right. Until it’s too late.
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Dendrophobia
Single-player alternative to Dark Collection: El and Ellie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Collection: El and Ellie.
A twisted pixel-art horror thriller about death, ancient gods, and a persistent waiter. Explore The Willow’s Embrace hotel, solve puzzles, and gather paranormal evidence. Challenge the madness to find a way out and avoid becoming part of an eternal nightmare.
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The Backrooms Project
Single-player alternative to Dark Collection: El and Ellie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Collection: El and Ellie.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Dark Collection: El and Ellie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Collection: El and Ellie.
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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Dark Collection: El and Ellie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Collection: El and Ellie.
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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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to Dark Collection: El and Ellie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Collection: El and Ellie.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!