Single-player games like Bring to Light
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Bring to Light, 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 Bring to Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bring to Light.
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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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to Bring to Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Bring to Light.
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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Bring to Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bring to Light.
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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Dead of Darkness
Single-player alternative to Bring to Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bring to Light.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Bring to Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Bring to Light.
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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Narcosis
Single-player alternative to Bring to Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bring to Light.
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Bring to Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bring to Light.
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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MADiSON VR
Single-player alternative to Bring to Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bring to Light.
MADiSON VR now plunges you even deeper into its immersive and terrifying world. With the utilization of an instant camera in your virtual hands, bridge the gap between our world and the unknown. Snap photos, develop them by yourself to solve puzzles, explore the shadows and above all, survive.
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Cube Samurai: RUN!
Single-player alternative to Bring to Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Run, jump and slash your way through this endless runner! Race through galactic environments as you try to stop the Evil Pyramid and his Cone Trooper army. Earn, purchase and upgrade your hero’s costumes, weapons, and special powers to help you be the greatest warrior in all of space and time!
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Steel & Steam: Episode 1
Single-player alternative to Bring to Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Steel & Steam takes the best elements from the fantasy JRPG’s of old, such as great stories, awesome characters, and classic monsters, and combines them with a touch of steampunk. It’s like taking Lord of the Rings and mixing in the Wild West.
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First Impact: Rise of a Hero
Single-player alternative to Bring to Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bring to Light.
First Impact: Rise of a Hero immerses you in a beautiful comic book world where you can run, jump, fly, and summon elemental powers to protect citizens. Experience a lush array of islands and cityscapes and uncover the truth about a mysterious force sending meteors to Earth. For PC & VR!
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Project Dark
Single-player alternative to Bring to Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bring to Light.
Project Dark is an episodic, narrative-driven audio game that uses binaural sound and "choose your own adventure" style storytelling to immerse players in its varied worlds. Close your eyes, and see.