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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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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Catherine Classic
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
Catherine: a tale of love, betrayal, and the terror of commitment. Experience the mature action-adventure-puzzle game unlike any other from the makers of the Persona series, now enhanced for PC in all its Classic glory. Is love over? Climb to the top or die trying.
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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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The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi join forces for the first time to deliver the ULTIMATE adventure game! 15 students are tasked with defending a school from grotesque monsters for 100 days. Can they make it to the end? And will they survive long enough to uncover the truth?
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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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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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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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Don't Escape Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology by award-winning indie developer Scriptwelder, you'll protect an unsuspecting hamlet from yourself, try to prepare for an incoming undead horde, and search a seemingly empty spaceship for answers to a gruesome mystery.
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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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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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Thief's Roulette
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
Lady Luck has selected 15 'thieves' to compete in Thief's Roulette. A new world of puzzles and deception.
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Secrets of Me
Single-player alternative to Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
"Secrets of Me" is a game where, after getting plastic surgery, you can stalk a hot guy to get him to fall in love with you! If you're tired of typical otome games, then this one's for you!
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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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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.