Single-player games like DISTRAINT 2
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to DISTRAINT 2, 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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DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
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Afterdream
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
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Mindlock - The Apartment
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
Colin’s apartment maze has puzzles, dialogues, and some dry humor waiting for you. A surreal adventure of a special kind.
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That Dragon, Cancer
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
An immersive, narrative videogame that retells Joel Green’s 4-year fight against cancer through about two hours of poetic, imaginative gameplay that explores themes of faith, hope and love.
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Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
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The White Door
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
Enter The White Door and discover Rusty Lake’s universe in a new game with a unique style! Explore Robert Hill’s dreams and help him to find his lost memories. Can you survive the strict daily routine and bring back color to Robert's life?
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Discolored
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.
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Detention
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
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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The Cat Lady
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
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Silence of the Sleep
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
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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Heal
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
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Without a Dawn
Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with DISTRAINT 2.
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.