Single-player games like Zafehouse: Diaries
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Zafehouse: Diaries, 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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Zafehouse Diaries 2
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Zafehouse Diaries 2 is a game of survival, exploration and relationships. Every hour, designate tasks for your handful of characters - each with their own skills, motivations and prejudices - and try to outlast the zombie apocalypse.
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NEO Scavenger
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
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Dead State: Reanimated
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
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SKYHILL
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zafehouse: Diaries.
World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...
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Dead Age
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Zafehouse: Diaries.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Deadnaut
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Deadnaut is Screwfly Studios' second game and follow up to cult hit, Zafehouse: Diaries. Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same.
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Fear Equation
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Fear Equation is a turn-based horror strategy game where you play the engineer of a modified freight train, built to protect its occupants from a deadly fog that brings their nightmares to life. Survival depends on analysing passengers' dreams, crafting defenses, upgrading, scavenging and resource management.
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Deadnaut: Signal Lost
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Deadnaut: Signal Lost is a sci-fi horror turn-based roguelike where loyalty isn't earned - it's installed. Scavenge derelict ships and abandoned moons filled with hellish creatures, brutal AI and insanity storms. Gather gear and upgrades to fight or evade the hi-tech supersoldiers hunting you down.