Single-player games like Date Z
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Date Z, 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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Arcadia Fallen
Single-player alternative to Date Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Date Z.
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
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Dear Mom: My Letter to You
Single-player alternative to Date Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Date Z.
One year following a traumatic event, high schooler Ayame turns over a new leaf. Experience her journey to make amends with friends and family after her long absence in this heartwarming, narrative-driven role-playing game wrapped in a dating sim.
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Between the Lines
Single-player alternative to Date Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Date Z.
In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.
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Arcadia Fallen II
Single-player alternative to Date Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Date Z.
In this sequel to the award-winning roleplay visual novel, Arcadia Fallen, you play as a senior student at the Seven Winds Academy. Choose from three different magical disciplines, and let your choices shape the personality of your character as you navigate school life during a time of great change.
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Weirdo
Single-player alternative to Date Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Date Z.
Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.
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Beach Boys: Zodiac date
Single-player alternative to Date Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Date Z.
Discover the fascinating world of the zodiac signs as you embark on a journey to win the heart of the boy of your dreams.
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Realm of Night: The Forbidden Knowledge
Single-player alternative to Date Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Date Z.
Being in debt to an influential merchant, a young veteran Alexander agrees to a strange deal: to take an orphan girl to an abandoned forest station and thus redeem the debt. The task turns into a real adventure, because the nights in the Black Earth region are dark and cold.
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I Just Want to be Single!! Season One
Single-player alternative to Date Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Date Z.
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
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Shing!
Single-player alternative to Date Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Date Z.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
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Corridor Z
Single-player alternative to Date Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Date Z.
Be quick or be undead! Ordinary high school, zombie outbreak and the bunch of survivors in a run for life.
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Draw Slasher
Single-player alternative to Date Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Date Z.
Draw Slasher is the unique demanding and dynamic action packed beat'em up you need only a mouse to play. Cut, slice, snip, sever, chop, shear and trim hordes of Pirate Monkey Zombies™.
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Hamster Playground
Single-player alternative to Date Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Date Z.
Prepare for cuteness overload, relentless training, and fierce rivalry as you and your hamsters take on challenges while traversing the maze and riding a skateboard, with more modes coming soon! Be the first to cross the finish line to earn rewards and yummy treats!