Single-player games like Dreadful
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Dreadful, 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
- 1
AsHes
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
This horror game inspired by Chinese folklore offers an enthralling journey through the depths of the Underworld. As you delve deeper, you'll unravel hidden secrets veiled in the darkness.
- 2
Selene's Unbearable Night
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
A third person survival horror game. Search for key objects, solve puzzles and face dangers in order to escape. Inspired by the old survival horror, with two playable characters and modern mechanics delve into the narrative story of Selene's Unbearable night.
- 3
Dread X Collection 5
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
A horror anthology in the Dread X Collection series. Featuring 12 new games from up-and-comers along with veterans, all wrapped up in an old, run down party venue that may be hiding more than it's letting on...
- 4
Backrooms: Escape Together
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
A visually lifelike co-op horror for 1-6 people. Journey through 10 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.
- 5
BIGFOOT
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
You are a Bigfoot hunter with an important mission: to put an end to rumours once and for all and prove to yourself that Bigfoot is not just a myth or an invention of the mind...
- 6
Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
- 7
Lethal Company
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
- 8
Outlast
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
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.
- 9
SAMOLIOTIK
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
SAMOLIOTIK is a stylish shoot-em-up with different enemies, bosses, colour palettes, power-ups, set in different eras. In this game you will fight Adolf Gutler,The Illuminati, and other creatures.
- 10
Among Ass
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
Local party or single player game about teamwork and killing with forbidden items!
- 11
Help
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
Your daughter was gone at a research of the abandoned bunker. Having gone to find her, you meet the horrors living in these walls, solve puzzles, discover what has happened in this place and to find the daughter. Everything that you have, is a lamp which charge constantly decreases also the radio.
- 12
Rogue Port - Blue Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
Help reunite your missing friends and save your family from wild animals, mutants, inanimate objects, aliens and the undead!
- 13
Possessed
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dreadful.
Possessed is a fast-paced story driven survival first person shooter spread across 3 action-packed regions. It features witty characters, terrifying creatures and a strong focus on physics and world interaction.
- 14
Drunken Fight Simulator
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
For real fun and drunken fighting experience, try Drunken Fighting Simulator.
- 15
Dexodonex
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dreadful.
Hexagonal puzzle with the ability to edit levels
- 16
Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice
Single-player alternative to Dreadful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful.
Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice, the title says it all! You get thrown into a dark room, with no light to be found anywhere! Are you willing to end your life to light the way for the next generation to proceed further? Play it today and find out!