Single-player games like Dark Places
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Dark Places, 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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Hatchpunk
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Hatchpunk is a retro first person shooter with unique visual style. You have a gun in one hand and a chainsaw in other hand. So come out and face the hordes of monsters that have invaded Earth. Use grapple hook for efficient movement. Kill enemies in close combat with chainsaw to regain your health.
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Gun Rage
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Gun Rage is an old-school, fast-paced, side-scrolling run and gun, with 16-bit era graphics, inspired by greatest classic games of the genre.
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DOOMED
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
DOOMED is a First Person Shooter with horror elements, heavily inspired by old-school shooter classics.
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Dementium: The Ward
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.
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PAPERHEAD EP.0
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
In this cute cardboard world, something went horribly wrong... You wake up in a prison cell. A strange voice calls to you from the depths of dark corridors covered in runic symbols and blood. Reload your trusty shotgun and find out... WHY WOULD CARDBOARD... BLEED?
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Blood: One Unit Whole Blood
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Places.
You carved your soul to shreds in servitude to a dark god, but false promises and betrayal were your only reward. Now you have a score to settle and it will be measured in blood! Experience the madness in one carnage-soaked package! All the gore, all the unholy war! Zombies, gargoyles, hellhounds and blood-crazed hordes of horrors await!
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Haunted Lands
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer. Uncover secrets, acquire powerful artifacts, and face challenging bosses in the Haunted Lands.
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FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Places.
What you are about to do has not been approved by the Vatican. As a young priest, struggle against demons, cultists, and your own weakening faith in this pixel horror game inspired by the era of classic 8-bit gaming and the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s.
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CRIMSON METAL Classic 1999
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
CRIMSON METAL - Far from Perfect, brutal and merciless.