Single-player games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Amnesia: The Dark Descent, 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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Amnesia: Rebirth
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
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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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
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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Penumbra Overture
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Amnesia: The Bunker
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Layers of Fear (2016)
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
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Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
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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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
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MADiSON
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.
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Penumbra: Requiem
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Puzzle expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague. Requiem is part of Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition, included in the Penumbra Collection.