Single-player games like Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles
Below are 14 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
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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Them and Us
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Them and Us is a classic, survival horror game with a focus on atmosphere and player immersion. Discover the truth of Alicia’s past as she descends further into her strange, unending nightmare.
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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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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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Tormented Souls 2
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.
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Blasphemous 2
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
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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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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: 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.