Single-player games like Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles, 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: Epidemic
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
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: Lost Hope
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Help a mother survive against the undead and find her her lost daughter in this hardcore survival horror nightmare.
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Mazgeon
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Mazgeon is an old school arcade dungeon roguelike RPG with procedurally generated levels filled with retro pixel art graphics where your only goal is to loot as much as you can.
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Outbreak: Shades of Horror Chromatic Split
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Experience the beginning of the end of Cypress Ridge in this '90s survival horror nightmare at the dawn of the zombie outbreak.
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CORPSE CARNIVAL
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
"CORPSE CARNIVAL" is a top-down action-adventure game where you will play as Li Xiaomeng, a first-year student at the "Linge" Military Academy, and escape from a city filled with zombies and monsters alongside "Asami Yuki."
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DARK SOULS™ II
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Developed by FROM SOFTWARE, DARK SOULS™ II is the highly anticipated sequel to the gruelling 2011 breakout hit Dark Souls. The unique old-school action RPG experience captivated imaginations of gamers worldwide with incredible challenge and intense emotional reward.
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Outbreak
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Race against the clock and battle the undead in this co-op survival horror nightmare.
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Heaven Dust 2
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Deep inside a research base, waking up from a cryogenic pod, you find yourself trapped in a living hell, surrounded by zombies. Heaven Dust 2 is a love letter to classic survival horror games featuring exploration, action, puzzles, and resource management.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
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 New Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Return to the roots of co-op survival horror as you face monstrous hordes, scrounge for supplies and attempt to survive the nightmare. You have one life. Make it count!
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Outbreak: Endless Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
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 Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
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 Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Dinosaurs have returned in this retro survival horror crisis.
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Outbreak: Shades of Horror
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Cross-platform online 4-player co-op survival horror returns in this early 2000s-inspired, undead apocalyptic nightmare.