Single-player games like Blackout: The Darkest Night
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Blackout: The Darkest Night, 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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Last Threshold
Single-player alternative to Blackout: The Darkest Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackout: The Darkest Night.
Dive into the world based on the Lovecraft universe and its successors. In immersive visual novel discover the secret of the temple and learn the truth about your companions and your father’s past!
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The Pigment
Single-player alternative to Blackout: The Darkest Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackout: The Darkest Night.
Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?
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HPL: Nyarlathotep Rising
Single-player alternative to Blackout: The Darkest Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackout: The Darkest Night.
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
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The Passenger
Single-player alternative to Blackout: The Darkest Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Blackout: The Darkest Night.
Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you. You flee, trapping yourself in human flesh, but will that be enough?
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The Innsmouth Case
Single-player alternative to Blackout: The Darkest Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackout: The Darkest Night.
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.
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Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
Single-player alternative to Blackout: The Darkest Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Blackout: The Darkest Night.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
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Roadwarden
Single-player alternative to Blackout: The Darkest Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackout: The Darkest Night.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
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Omen Exitio: Plague
Single-player alternative to Blackout: The Darkest Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackout: The Darkest Night.
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.