Single-player games like The Diary
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Diary, 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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No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Single-player alternative to The Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Diary.
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
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The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Single-player alternative to The Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Diary.
He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
- 3
Road to Empress I
Single-player alternative to The Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Diary.
You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.
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Undusted: Letters from the Past
Single-player alternative to The Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Diary.
Undusted: Letters from the Past is a casual game in which you clean and restore dirty items. What is her story as she returns to a long-neglected house? Enjoy the satisfying audiovisuals featuring sensually designed sounds and graphics.
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Vanity Fair: The Pursuit
Single-player alternative to The Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Diary.
Players follow Lu Yuan through important stages of his life and experience his growth trajectory from youth to maturity. It will take you to relive those decisions that you have never tried to make in reality, and feel the different life brought about by each choice.
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Cabernet
Single-player alternative to The Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Diary.
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to The Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Diary.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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TR-49
Single-player alternative to The Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Guardians of the Sanctree
Single-player alternative to The Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Diary.
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
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成土市的我 CTcity
Single-player alternative to The Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Diary.
Reality ruins, tiles of CT city block his heart. Imagination flies, plants in the mind become his star. Boy wonders, the road is nowhere to go. Journey begins, the key is just himself. Welcome to CT city!