Single-player games like The Hollow Line
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Hollow Line, 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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Mandated Fate
Single-player alternative to The Hollow Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hollow Line.
A dystopian future-noir social thriller. As an Imperial Inspector, navigate a towering technocratic empire where loyalty is survival. Investigate secrets, manipulate factions, and make brutal moral choices. In this alternate history, will you uphold the regime or subvert the truth?
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REQUIRED SYNERGY WORKSHOP: Deja Damnation
Single-player alternative to The Hollow Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Hollow Line.
A slow-burn psychological horror narrative adventure where every choice leaves a trace. Across nine chapters, unstable memories and fragile relationships pull you into a story where trust always comes with a cost.
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The Harbinger of the Deep
Single-player alternative to The Hollow Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Hollow Line.
Destroy the frustrations of other Beings and befriend them, or ignore them and slay them all instead! Shoot your actions and decide the fate of this submerged world in The Harbinger of the Deep!
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The Pigment
Single-player alternative to The Hollow Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hollow Line.
Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?
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Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer
Single-player alternative to The Hollow Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hollow Line.
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
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RULES OF RESIDENCE
Single-player alternative to The Hollow Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Hollow Line.
You bought your dream home... but it wasn't all you chalked it up to be. As a member of its management committee, rewrite the rules to change the lives of your neighbours and your family for the better in this singleplayer management simulator. Or will you become what you sought to fight against?
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Oaths & Ashes
Single-player alternative to The Hollow Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hollow Line.
Two vampires — an ambitious Kindred and a wretched Thinblood. Their fates clash in this Visual Novel set in the World of Darkness, where your arsenal extends beyond just words — from political machinations to forbidden Alchemy. Claw your way to power and leave your bitemarks on Berlin's underworld.
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Re:Connect
Single-player alternative to The Hollow Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hollow Line.
—If emotions can be programmed, can we call that a heart? Re:Connect is a programming puzzle adventure where you connect code to change the rules. As a newly born Debug AI, set out on a adventure with your chatty Navi AI to repair the “Heart Bugs” spreading throughout the digital world.