Single-player games like Dreadline Express
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dreadline Express, 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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Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing
Single-player alternative to Dreadline Express — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dreadline Express.
In this detective RPG, you untangle a thick web of intrigues, lies, and secrets that surround a mysterious death. Find the origin of eerie telegraph signals, question the villagers, decipher the strange symbols that are suddenly appearing all over town - and hide from the danger lurking in the moor.
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The Sinking City Remastered
Single-player alternative to Dreadline Express — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
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Agarta
Single-player alternative to Dreadline Express — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Agarta has been designed to show you how valuable and important every decision you make in your individual life, every choice you make is. Because every choice you make is also a renunciation and you cannot undo any decision.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Dreadline Express — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Single-player alternative to Dreadline Express — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.
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Call of Cthulhu®
Single-player alternative to Dreadline Express — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dreadline Express.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
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Strange Horticulture
Single-player alternative to Dreadline Express — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
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Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
Single-player alternative to Dreadline Express — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.