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Single-player games like Daymare: 1998

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Daymare: 1998, 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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    Resident Evil 4 (2005) — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil 4 (2005)

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Daymare: 1998.

    (Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.

    2014ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Evil Within 2 — Steam game cover

    The Evil Within 2

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Daymare: 1998.

    Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.

    2017ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Evil Within — Steam game cover

    The Evil Within

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daymare: 1998.

    Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.

    2014Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resident Evil Revelations — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil Revelations

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Daymare: 1998.

    Resident Evil® Revelations returns redefined for PC complete with high quality HD visuals, enhanced lighting effects and an immersive sound experience.

    2013ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Zombie Army Trilogy — Steam game cover

    Zombie Army Trilogy

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daymare: 1998.

    The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.

    2015Action44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resident Evil Revelations 2 — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil Revelations 2

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Daymare: 1998.

    RE Revelations 2 continues the series acclaimed essential survival horror experience, while uncovering startling truths.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Remothered: Tormented Fathers — Steam game cover

    Remothered: Tormented Fathers

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Daymare: 1998.

    Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cold Fear™ — Steam game cover

    Cold Fear™

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daymare: 1998.

    In a ferocious Arctic storm, distress signals are sent from a mysterious Russian whaler. As leading Coast Guard veteran Tom Hansen, you board to investigate — and discover unthinkable horrors lurking beneath the ship's bloodstained decks.

    2008ActionDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resident Evil 2 — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil 2

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daymare: 1998.

    A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.

    2019Action39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resident Evil — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Daymare: 1998.

    The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tormented Souls — Steam game cover

    Tormented Souls

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Daymare: 1998.

    Classic survival horror is back! Inspired by the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark series, Tormented Souls modernises with a fresh twist on the fixed perspective adventure - as Caroline Walker investigates the mysterious disappearance of twin girls in a terrifying mansion-turned-hospital.

    2021ActionAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resident Evil 3 — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil 3

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daymare: 1998.

    Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.

    2020Action39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Requiem — Steam game cover

    Requiem

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Daymare: 1998.

    Slash enemies, morph into beast form, and raise the dead to fight for you in this grim-dark souls-like.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resident Evil 4 — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil 4

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Daymare: 1998.

    Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.

    2023ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle — Steam game cover

    Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daymare: 1998.

    Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is a third-person story-driven survival horror game prequel to the critically acclaimed Daymare: 1998. Step into the shoes of agent Dalila Reyes, a former government spy now in the service of H.A.D.E.S. unit and prepare to face the true horror.

    2023Action29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Panic Delivery — Steam game cover

    Panic Delivery

    Single-player alternative to Daymare: 1998 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Daymare: 1998.

    A 4-player co-op horror comedy where you drop in as couriers delivering packages in a dystopian world ruled by grotesque monsters. You share 99 lives - deliver, don’t die, and make it count!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure7.19 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →