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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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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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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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
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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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Trepang2
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.
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Manhunt
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dark Places.
You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.
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DEADBOLT
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.
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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to Dark Places — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
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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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.