Single-player games like Outbreak: The New Nightmare
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Outbreak: The New Nightmare, 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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Outbreak
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
Race against the clock and battle the undead in this co-op survival horror nightmare.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Obscure II (Obscure: The Aftermath)
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
Two years ago, a group of young teenagers found themselves trapped inside their school. They suffered through the longest night of their lives, chased by abominable creatures created by their principal. Some of them survived that terrible night, while others perished.
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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
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.
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Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
Experience an immersive and horrifying episodic single-player survival horror nightmare. Trapped alone in a desolate manor and hunted by monstrous foes, you will need to scrounge for supplies, manage your resources, solve puzzles and battle the undead to survive.
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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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The Hotel
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
The Hotel is an "old style" survival horror game!! Fight zombies and solve puzzles to try to escape!!
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Ground Zero
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
Fight through post-apocalyptic South Korea in this retro survival horror. Uncover the truth behind the devastating meteor impact that left the country in ruins and turned every living organism into a terrifying monstrosity. Fight. Solve puzzles. Upgrade gear. Make every bullet count.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
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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Resident Evil 3
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.
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Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999)
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
Join Jill Valentine, the survivor of the notorious disaster, as her nightmare continues. After resigning from S.T.A.R.S. Jill now prepares to head out of Raccoon City… but caught in a town crawling with zombies, more than ever she must rely on brute force and cunning to find a way to escape alive.
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Outbreak: Lost Hope
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
Help a mother survive against the undead and find her her lost daughter in this hardcore survival horror nightmare.
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Outbreak: Epidemic
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
Return to the world of 4-player co-op survival horror with classic gameplay, strict inventory management, crushing enemies, horrific difficulty and more as you and a group of survivors try to survive the epidemic.
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Outbreak: Endless Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
The nightmare continues for Lydia and her fellow survivors. Experience true horror in this co-op survival horror roguelike.
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Outbreak: Contagious Memories
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
You’re trapped in a city ravaged by the undead - can you make it out alive? Join Lydia in her desperate struggle to escape, either alone or with a friend in co-op, in this chilling love letter to classic 90s survival horror.
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Dinobreak
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
Dinosaurs have returned in this retro survival horror crisis.
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Outbreak: Shades of Horror
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.
Cross-platform online 4-player co-op survival horror returns in this early 2000s-inspired, undead apocalyptic nightmare.