Single-player games like Holy Deadline
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Holy Deadline, 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 Detention (Rescribbled)
Single-player alternative to Holy Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Holy Deadline.
DEAD DETENTION is a scribbly interactive story about a nerdy teen turned dooms day survivor! Play as 14 year old Max as he tries to escape his high school during a deadly zombie pandemic! Will he and his new friends get to safety?!
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Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
Single-player alternative to Holy Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Holy Deadline.
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.
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The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
Single-player alternative to Holy Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Holy Deadline.
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
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We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe
Single-player alternative to Holy Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Holy Deadline.
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
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Death Trick: Double Blind
Single-player alternative to Holy Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Holy Deadline.
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
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Tron: Identity
Single-player alternative to Holy Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Holy Deadline.
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
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One Night Stand
Single-player alternative to Holy Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Holy Deadline.
After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?
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Her Story
Single-player alternative to Holy Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Holy Deadline.
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.