Single-player games like Silent Descent
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Silent 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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Rise of Insanity
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Silent Descent.
In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.
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Decay: The Mare
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Silent Descent.
Sam is an addict who ends up in an institution named “Reaching Dreams”, hoping to kick his drug problem and sort out his miserable life. But during the first night, something goes horribly wrong and he gets stuck in an endless nightmare…
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Silent Descent.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Left Alone
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Silent Descent.
Left Alone plunges you into a first-person psychological horror journey, where darkness and memories intertwine. As secrets emerge from shadows, use your wits to solve puzzles and explore haunting, forgotten locations. Every step echoes with the past; can you face the truths that await?
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Dark Fall: Lost Souls
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Silent Descent.
Travel to the old train station and hotel, abandoned since 1947, following the 'disappearances'. Unravel the mystery that binds this place, by communicating with the ghosts of the long since dead, both in your time and theirs.
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Layers of Fear (2016)
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Silent 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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The Initiate 2: The First Interviews
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Silent Descent.
Three people awake in adjacent prison cells with no recollection of how they got there. Now, they must work together in order to escape this nightmarish captivity. But can they really trust one another?
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Silent 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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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Silent 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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INQUIR P.T.
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Silent Descent.
A post-apocalyptic story-based action adventure game. Fully customizable weapons and a high mobility character. Zombie horde mode and full of action, blood, brutality.
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The Initiate
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Silent Descent.
The Initiate is a mystery puzzle game. You awake in a house full of traps and puzzles - This is your trial; complete it, or die!
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The Secret Monster Society
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Silent Descent.
A classic point-and-click comedy adventure game, set in a unique world of monsters and creatures. Embark on an epic adventure across land and sea, using time travel to stop an evil genius from destroying the world. Inspired by Saturday morning cartoons.
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ALONE? - VR
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Silent Descent.
Immerse yourself in a true VR Horror game. Explore and experience a fully immersive world as you embark on an ghostly adventure unlike anything you have played before. Come face-to-face with terror itself as you look for your missing sister.
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ESCAPE: The Cabin
Single-player alternative to Silent Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Silent Descent.
Trapped in a remote cabin, solve over 70 puzzles and uncover your captor's identity in this first-person horror escape-room game. Inspect and combine items, follow hidden clues, and face randomised solutions that change between playthroughs.