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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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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Immortal: Unchained
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Unleashed and unforgiving. Can you rise to the challenge? Immortal: Unchained is the latest addition to the genre of ultra-hardcore action RPGs. Take the role of a living weapon, unleashed to stop the source of a cataclysmic event threatening to end all worlds.
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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 The Fedora Files: What Lydia Knows
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles.
Something is foul in the city of Cypress Ridge. Uncover the truth in this narrative rich visual novel taking place just moments before a full blown undead epidemic.