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Single-player games like Home Safety Hotline

Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Home Safety Hotline, 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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    Life Eater — Steam game cover

    Life Eater

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.

    If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Yeli Orog — Steam game cover

    Yeli Orog

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.

    Yeli Orog is a short atmospheric FMV game about an immense archaeological discovery: A bizarre stone tablet written in the Celtiberian language found buried underneath an ancient dolmen in northern Spain.

    2018IndieAdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Strange Aeons — Steam game cover

    Strange Aeons

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.

    You are stuck in gnostic cyber-hell. The followers of your cult are summoning you. Chat with an offline neural net AI through the microphone to escape hell and return to the land of the living.

    2023IndieAdventure8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Murder Meet Cute — Steam game cover

    Murder Meet Cute

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Home Safety Hotline.

    Look, just because I’m paid to fix computers, doesn’t mean I’ll sit here and listen to your life story. So what there’s been murders? Do I look like a detective?

    2026IndieAdventureCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Speed Dates — Steam game cover

    Speed Dates

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.

    Embark Speed Dates, where you control first dates with 18 attractive women in this interactive FMV game. Shape your story with charm and humor for a personalized romantic journey.

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation1.79 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Her Story — Steam game cover

    Her Story

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.

    A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.

    2015IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker — Steam game cover

    The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.

    YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Not For Broadcast — Steam game cover

    Not For Broadcast

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.

    A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Not Tonight — Steam game cover

    Not Tonight

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.

    Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.

    2018AdventureSimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Doki Doki Literature Club! — Steam game cover

    Doki Doki Literature Club!

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Home Safety Hotline.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    That's not my Neighbor — Steam game cover

    That's not my Neighbor

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.

    It's 1955, and for unknown reasons, doppelgangers are more common than usual. Therefore, the Department of Doppelganger Detection (D.D.D.) has taken action. You are the doorman of an apartment complex, and you must decide whether to let in those who claim to be your neighbors.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    I'm on Observation Duty — Steam game cover

    I'm on Observation Duty

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.

    As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?

    2019Indie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SCP Foundation: ITTLG - Chapter 1 — Steam game cover

    SCP Foundation: ITTLG - Chapter 1

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Home Safety Hotline.

    SCP Foundation: ITTLG Chapter 1 is a visual novel about, SCP-105 & SCP-105-B and her friendship with you. Trying to escape the foundation, in the end. They find out the dark truth behind their existence.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Foundation — Steam game cover

    Foundation

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.

    Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Buddy Simulator 1984 — Steam game cover

    Buddy Simulator 1984

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.

    Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Duskers — Steam game cover

    Duskers

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.

    Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Forbidden Solitaire — Steam game cover

    Forbidden Solitaire

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.

    Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.

    2026StrategyIndie14.39 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    NiGHT SIGNAL — Steam game cover

    NiGHT SIGNAL

    Single-player alternative to Home Safety Hotline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.

    NiGHT SIGNAL is a short first-person horror experience that sees you breaking in a new television set, only to find that it picks up strange signals after dark. Hand crafted from flesh and clay.

    2022IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →