Single-player games like A Date with Death
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to A Date with Death, 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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Killer Chat! - Original Edition
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with A Date with Death.
Killer Chat! is a satirical serial killer dating chatsim. Play as a (customisable!) writer as you pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, fall in love and try not to call the cops through a whirlwind six months with your murderous beau of choice. What could possibly go wrong?
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Bewitching Sinners
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Date with Death.
Bewitching Sinners is a dark comedy dating sim where your choices will either leave you with your true love or ruin a whole world and potentially killing millions of people within it, no pressure! Explore a fantasy world full of witches, hot priests, and the occasional dance with death.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with A Date with Death.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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ERROR143
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with A Date with Death.
A bickering and bantering rivals-to-lovers visual novel where you fall in love after first hack.
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Fields of Asphodel
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Date with Death.
Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?
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Charming Hearts
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with A Date with Death.
"Charming Hearts" is a real-life interactive dating game. Players will meet, get to know, and fall in love with different types of beauty. Every choice will lead to a completely different chemical reaction with "her"; every entanglement, the sweet love is entangled and pulled.
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Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Love Curse is a GL visual novel. You’ve fallen under a curse, and the only way to break it is to find your soulmate! The clock is ticking… Will you find true love? And what secrets will you uncover along the way?
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Speed Dating for Ghosts
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with A Date with Death.
Branching dialogue! Hard choices! A cemetery's worth of phantoms, wraiths, and poltergeists lookin' for love in all the blight places.
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Amelie
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with A Date with Death.
A psychological mystery yuri visual novel about a girl named Amelie. Forbidden from leaving the house, Amelie awaits the arrival of her long time penpal, Sofia, to her dear friend Lilika’s dismay. What secrets will Sofia unravel that were best kept buried?
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The Divine Speaker
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with A Date with Death.
A story-rich tale of breaking the bonds of fate... and meeting some cute guys along the way!
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start;again
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with A Date with Death.
A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers. Who put him there, and more importantly… who can he trust?
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The Divine Speaker: The Sun and the Moon
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with A Date with Death.
The story-rich 18+ prequel to The Divine Speaker. Follow alongside Aemyl and Lucius in a two-sided story about the past and the future.
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Dreambound
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with A Date with Death.
Mysterious deaths. Dreams that are reality, and reality that is a dream. Will Noah be able to move forward and solve the mystery—or will he give in to the demons of his past? A story-rich BL mystery visual novel.
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The Divine Speaker: A Bounty Hunter's First Christmas
Single-player alternative to A Date with Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with A Date with Death.
A Chistmas themed afterstory to The Divine Speaker featuring Leos and Raen! Search for the elusive Mister Bells, spend the Winter Solstice together, and win at rock-paper-scissors against your favorite ex-assassin turned bounty hunter!