Single-player games like Zafehouse: Diaries
Below are 14 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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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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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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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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FALL
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
In the past, the world was almost invaded by zombies.You will play the commander of the remaining survivor camp, searching for hope for the last surviving companions, forming and assigning your special police squad to explore this post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies!
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Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.
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Dead Matter
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zafehouse: Diaries.
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Zafehouse: Diaries — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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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.