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Single-player games like DISTRAINT 2

Below are 15 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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    Afterdream — Steam game cover

    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.

    2023IndieAdventure10.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Carnal Sins: Malum Incarnatum + Carne Vescens — Steam game cover

    Carnal Sins: Malum Incarnatum + Carne Vescens

    Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.

    Dive into the twisted perceptions of love from two lost souls: Unravel a life torn apart by the desire to love and be loved, and help a mother feed her insatiable child by paying the ultimate price.

    2025IndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MY DAUGHTER IS A CULTIST! SE — Steam game cover

    MY DAUGHTER IS A CULTIST! SE

    Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with DISTRAINT 2.

    YOU'RE JUST A NORMAL GUY TRYING TO GET SOME SLEEP. YOU HEAR A BUMP IN THE NIGHT. WHAT WAS THAT? WHY IS YOUR DAUGHTER ACTING SO WEIRD? IS IT PARENTHOOD OR A HORRIBLE CURIOSITY THAT COMPELS YOU TO FIND OUT? A Short horror experience.

    2023ActionIndieCasual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dead Man's Fault — Steam game cover

    Dead Man's Fault

    Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with DISTRAINT 2.

    A short psychological horror game about descending into a cave.

    2022Indie2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    NIGHTSLINK — Steam game cover

    NIGHTSLINK

    Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.

    You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.

    2021IndieAdventure3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    CODA — Steam game cover

    CODA

    Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.

    ///CODA is a surrealist exploration game with four diverse chapters that each tell unique stories connected by a surreal museum. Take a peak through the looking glass and wander...

    2023IndieAdventureRPG4.29 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Into A Dream — Steam game cover

    Into A Dream

    Single-player alternative to DISTRAINT 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.

    You are his last hope. The only one who can rescue him. Delve deep into the dreams of Luke Williams, a man diagnosed with depression, unfold the heartbreaking story of his life and prevent him from... fading away.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    That Dragon, Cancer — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Outlast — Steam game cover

    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.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Cat Lady — Steam game cover

    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...

    2013IndieAdventure8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Silence of the Sleep — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014IndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SILENT HILL 2 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024ActionAdventure34.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heal — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Without a Dawn — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025Indie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →