Single-player games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Below are 13 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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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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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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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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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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Claustrophobia
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Claustrophobia offers a scary and dark horror experience filled with blood boiling moments, first you will have to silently move your way through the darkness, until you can pick up arms and discover the truth. Can you figure out what is hiding in this grueling subterranean facility?
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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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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to Amnesia: The Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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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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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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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.