Single-player games like Red Tape
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Red Tape, 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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Melancholia Maze
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
Melancholia Maze is a brief atmospheric horror adventure in a twisted version of home. Complete everyday tasks while avoiding lurking demons, collect clues to piece together a lifeline, and find your way out of the darkness. Escape is just a call away.
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Urbex Night Security
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Red Tape.
Atmospheric slow-burn indie horror game. Walking simulator interspersed with various events, sometimes simple puzzles and a bit of running away.Student starts working as a security guard in the old abandoned factory that hides a dark secret.
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For Her
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
For Her is a single-player, story-driven psychological horror game that delves into the depths of morality, sacrifice, and the human psyche. You play as David Hill, a dedicated police officer in Dismas City. A loving husband and father, David always puts his family first, no matter the cost.
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Cinderline
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
Drive the Cinderline as an anthropomorphic bird, exploring strange towns in an aging system. Gather ingredients to create the last S’MORE and deliver its delight to the Heart that keeps the system alive.
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Veins of DARKNESS
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
Veins of DARKNESS is a first-person horror game. The hero is an ordinary shift worker. During a business trip, his company rented him a house on the outskirts. But no one knew what evil was hiding in this godforsaken place.
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Just an Ordinary Bike Ride
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
In this adventure horror game you experience nothing but a calm bike ride home, your chauffeur is late and it's starting to rain. You only have a bike but you need to get home, it's a rather empty street aside from some debris. It's just a bike ride home.
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Goodbye Page
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
Goodbye Page is a third-person walking simulator where you play as Page, exploring the mysterious environment of her dad's house. With surreal settings and strange oddities throughout, can she uncover what is really happening in the house?
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Staring Time
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
First Person Psychological Horror game inspired by Inspired by Layers Of Fear and Slender Man. Dark rooms full of dark forces. Your only way to stay sane is to Stare at Time. One Demon will want you to look at it, DON'T! The others are afraid of the Light. The Full game is 2 hours of gameplay.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The smash-hit stylish action game DMC4 is back and better than ever, boasting new playable characters and game modes!
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The Norwood Suite
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.
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Smile For Me
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
A heartbroken clown, wayward souls, and juicy mechanical lips. As “The Big Event" draws near, help the troubled residents of the Habitat and de-mask the mysterious Doctor Habit... before it's too late.
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The Procession to Calvary
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.
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Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?
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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red Tape.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
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Ante Inferno
Single-player alternative to Red Tape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Red Tape.
The poker RPG. ANTE INFERNO is a roguelite card battler where you play poker hands as attacks, tear through hell with forty class abilities, and stack boons until the damage counter gives up on digits.