Single-player games like D Life
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to D Life, 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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Denshi Life 2 / デンシライフ 2
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
Control life forms, represented by the movement of particles, through “mutation”, “wind”, and “activation” to take the pictures directed by the mission! The simple, new gameplay of the previous title has been developed in a more accessible way, with greatly enhanced visuals and sound.
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THE XEN
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
Add up to 10. THE XEN is an adrenaline-pumping puzzle roguelike where every number counts. Test your game sense against the world.
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Breath of Digital God
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
Become a digital god in a fast-paced meditave bullet hell. Freeze time, reverse reality, and survive waves of chaotic energy synced to music. Master your abilities and reach the highest level of reality.
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HypnoTiles
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
HypnoTiles is a puzzle game of the falling blocks variety. Its psychedelic graphics, hypnotic soundtrack and absorbing gameplay put the player in an almost trance-like state. Features 3 game modes and online highscores.
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80's Mania Pinball
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
Throwback to the golden age of arcade with this incredible pinball machine. Simple, funny and hard to dominate.
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Waves
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
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I, Robot
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
Jeff Minter is back with another unique take on a 1980s Atari arcade game: I, Robot. Reimagined in Minter’s signature assault of colors, shapes and sounds, this new take on the eclectic arcade title is built from the ground up with new challenges, new twists, and a whole lot of llamas.
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Mixolumia
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
Mixolumia is an entrancing musical arcade puzzler where diamond blocks slide together on a gem-shaped board and explode in glittering chain reactions.
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Super Chain Crusher Horizon
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
Super Chain Crusher Horizon is the largest, longest, most incredible PC shooting game in history with a two-player mode that is revolutionary. And, it’s loaded with game modes that solve the problems had by most shoot ‘em ups.
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Cosmic Cavern 3671 宇宙最大の地底最大の作戦
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
Cosmic Cavern was published in July 1980 by Takaya Arita, currently a professor at Nagoya University. This “Tactical Digging Game,” which existed two years prior to Dig Dug as the original sandbox game, has now been dramatically powered up!
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Pinball Parlor
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
A concept anyone can instantly understand. The joy of experiencing a novelty not found in any other game. A game you will want to play again and again after only a short period of time.
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SPACE MOUSE 35th Anniversary edition
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
Guide Alice, cat astronaut extraordinaire, to the top of the building without being caught by the vicious Space Mice. The original version of this vertically-scrolling maze game was released in September 1981 for the PC-8001. It was designed by Takanari Suzuki, Japan’s first star game creator.
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４人打ちアクション麻雀 / ACTION MAHJONG
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
Don't draw the tiles you want! Push and get them! A new mahjong game that goes beyond mahjong, a mah-jong game that will play the most exciting and make the biggest noise ever in history, is here at last!
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HEIANKYO ALIEN / 平安京エイリアン
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
The Heiankyo Alien, developed on a personal computer and released in 1979 as an arcade game from Denki Onkyo, is now ported and arranged for Windows! Arranged version "Heiankyo Alien 3671" is a time-based game, overwhelmingly addictive and euphoric, with new features such as seven items buried in the field, various scoring...
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COSMIC SNAKE 8473/3671(HAMLETs)
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
First time is history! Here comes the game to beat enemies by "roof-fall"! We have implemented this idea into the good old snake game which we've enjoyed for so many years, but with a side-view angle.
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ALIEN FIELD
Single-player alternative to D Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with D Life.
Totally new, attack! Rogue Like Dot Eat! Psychedelic full throttle! Explode your concentration in 3 minutes and knock out the high score!