Single-player games like The Zodiac Trial
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Zodiac Trial, 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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The Specter's Desire
Single-player alternative to The Zodiac Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Zodiac Trial.
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
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The Remission of Sins
Single-player alternative to The Zodiac Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Zodiac Trial.
The Remission of Sins is a fully-voiced, multi-ending short horror visual novel. Depending on the player’s choice, it branches to 12 different endings.
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アパシー殺人クラブ
Single-player alternative to The Zodiac Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
『部活動の時間です。さあ、人殺しをはじめてください』 一癖も二癖もある強者ぞろいの巨大コミュニティ、それが鳴神学園。 そこには、ありとあらゆる部活動が存在し、到底常識では考えられない特殊な闇の倶楽部がある。その一つが殺人クラブだ。
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Morth
Single-player alternative to The Zodiac Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Zodiac Trial.
A darkness has fallen over the village of Drakehorn. People have gone missing in the night and have been seen walking into the woods and never returning. Find out what's causing these disappearances before time runs out.
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Bloody Service
Single-player alternative to The Zodiac Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Zodiac Trial.
The conjoined twins were bullied and humiliated... Now justice will be served! BLOODY SERVICE is a dark, gory and violent coming-of-age slasher FMV Visual Novel with gruesome deaths and clever one-liners related to tennis. Game, set, machete!
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Bobok
Single-player alternative to The Zodiac Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Zodiac Trial.
Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".
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Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
Single-player alternative to The Zodiac Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Zodiac Trial.
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.
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Overboard!
Single-player alternative to The Zodiac Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Zodiac Trial.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
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Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Single-player alternative to The Zodiac Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
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Escape Floor Zero
Single-player alternative to The Zodiac Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Trapped in an infinite parking lot, your only escape is through Floor Zero. Detect subtle anomalies and make crucial decisions in this mind-bending, psychological horror experience. Dare to escape the unescapable? If you see an anomaly... turn back.
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The Divine Deception
Single-player alternative to The Zodiac Trial — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Zodiac Trial.
The Divine Deception awaits you in Panthea. Will you be able to find the truth? Deduce, brainstorm, fight, and hack your ways through obstacles. But remember: Panthea's story is a game to be bet on. Nothing more.