Single-player games like Depression Quest
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Depression Quest, 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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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
Single-player alternative to Depression Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Depression Quest.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
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The Ultimate Death Clock
Single-player alternative to Depression Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Depression Quest.
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
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Pikabuu: STOP!
Single-player alternative to Depression Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Depression Quest.
Beni, a loving husband to Nadia and father to Kaila, always ensured his family's needs were met with simple contentment. However, one day, an unwitting decision dragged his small family into a spiral that threatens everything.
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Room 337
Single-player alternative to Depression Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Depression Quest.
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
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Human.exe
Single-player alternative to Depression Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Depression Quest.
An AI has isolated the mind of a philosophy professor to evaluate human morality. As the terminal operator, you access files, run programs, and take his consciousness through ethical dilemmas. Your decisions will train the AI's final algorithm.
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Penrose
Single-player alternative to Depression Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Depression Quest.
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
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The Quiet After
Single-player alternative to Depression Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Depression Quest.
You play Ava, a would-be adventurer whose guild registration is only the first step into something far more dangerous, on the road ahead and beneath her own skin. A psychological, choice-driven visual novel where every decision shapes who she becomes.
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Stella: into the Shadow
Single-player alternative to Depression Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Depression Quest.
Blackwood knows how to keep secrets: beneath the neon, behind polite smiles, in offices with no nameplates. Stella is searching for a missing friend and realizes too late that she was let in for a reason.