Single-player games like 5 Days
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to 5 Days, 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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Dead Watch
Single-player alternative to 5 Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 5 Days.
You're stuck in a time loop ⌛. Whenever you find a dead body, you go back to the past. The only way to escape the loop is to cheat destiny & change the future. Explore the castle and uncover its dark secrets to prevent the next killing.
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Antediluvial : Yalroc Island
Single-player alternative to 5 Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with 5 Days.
Three days before the Great Flood, and as many loops as you need. Isometric action-adventure inspired by 90s classics like Landstalker and Majora's Mask. The sea rises relentlessly and reshapes the island by the hour.
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Eternal Threads
Single-player alternative to 5 Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 5 Days.
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
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Twelve Minutes
Single-player alternative to 5 Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 5 Days.
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
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The Sexy Brutale
Single-player alternative to 5 Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 5 Days.
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
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Orten Was The Case
Single-player alternative to 5 Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 5 Days.
Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.
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Hourglass: Prologue
Single-player alternative to 5 Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 5 Days.
Hourglass: Prologue is the first part of the puzzle-adventure „Hourglass“ where you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. Play as Aywa, a young adventurer traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Single-player alternative to 5 Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with 5 Days.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Jump Journey
Single-player alternative to 5 Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 5 Days.
Jump Journey is a rogelike 2d side scrolling platformer. Avoid obstacles in this fast-paced game, where the movement never stops. Get gems to unlock upgrades for each run. Play enough runs and you can get permanent upgrades. Each level plays a bit differently, learn to master them all.
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Run and Gun
Single-player alternative to 5 Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with 5 Days.
Run and Gun is an action roguelike shooting game where you mow down thousands of enemies while unlocking newer and deadlier weapons. The enemies won't stop spawning, and your guns won't stop firing. Earn gold each run to unlock permanent upgrades to make your next run deadlier.