Single-player games like Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma, 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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Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
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AI: The Somnium Files
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.
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The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
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Tokyo Dark
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
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CHAOS;CHILD
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
From the creators of the critically acclaimed STEINS;GATE comes a sensational new visual novel: CHAOS;CHILD. Set in Shibuya in 2015, a group of high school students who survived an earthquake six years ago find themselves at the center of a new series of bizarre murders in the city.
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STEINS;GATE
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
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Corpse Party
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
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CORPSE FACTORY
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
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Raging Loop
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
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Double
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
Double is an action-quest game telling about a fight with a mental disorder by immersing in dreams. Choose your way and find out how this mystical story ends.
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GNOSIA
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...
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Shift
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
It's a fun puzzle game. You have to connect as many figures as possible together. Use yellow "shifters" to change direction of the line. Get more points for longer line.
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WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL：美好世界
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
Become a god and help change the fate of people, even the world! In WILL: A Wonderful World, you will receive letters written by characters living in urban cities. By rearranging the order and combinations of sentences in these letters, you are going to alter the destiny of whomever that wrote them.
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Will You Snail?
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
A unique platformer where an evil AI predicts your movement. Dodge AI-spawned traps, solve optional puzzles and uncover the dark secrets of the simulation. Now with a level editor and infinite community-made content!
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No One Left To Die
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
A generation ship with an unclear objective, housing an expendable crew tasked with waking up passengers to complete the mission... No One Left To Die is a short, sci-fi, action-puzzle-platformer that can be completed solo or with friends in a nuanced cooperative and competitive environment.
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DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO takes the legendary gameplay of the Budokai Tenkaichi series and raises it to whole new levels. Make yours the destructive power of the strongest fighters ever to appear in Dragon Ball!
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
Jabberwock Island—You and your classmates were ready for fun in the sun until Monokuma returned to restart his murderous game! Trapped in a kill-or-be-killed situation, your only hope rests in solving the island’s mysteries.
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as you investigate twisted murder cases and condemn your new friends to death.
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JUMP FORCE
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Create your own avatar to fight alongside the most powerful Manga heroes in an original Story Mode, or head to the Online Lobby to challenge other players and discover lots of modes and activities.
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Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Komaru Naegi has been imprisoned inside a mysterious apartment for over a year. Her rescue is derailed when hundreds of Monokumas suddenly attack. She teams up with Toko Fukawa to survive the rampaging Monokumas, escape the crafty Monokuma Kids, and uncover the secrets of the city.