Single-player games like Advent: Dawn
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Advent: Dawn, 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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時折記 -Tokioriki-
Single-player alternative to Advent: Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
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Mutual Harrow
Single-player alternative to Advent: Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.
Guide Mina and Rex through a dark and intense psychological visual novel of trauma, love, and insecurity... Traverse Section 56’s dangers, confront the past, and shape their fate.
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REDLINE — Strings of Fate
Single-player alternative to Advent: Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.
A sci-fi otome game where your choices shape love — and the future of society.
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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
Single-player alternative to Advent: Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.
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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Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue
Single-player alternative to Advent: Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Advent: Dawn.
Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue is a social thriller set in a tropical island resort: you’ve been kidnapped and forced to participate in a twisted reality TV show with 10 strangers. At the end of their stay, they’ll each receive $500,000... If they survive.
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STAY
Single-player alternative to Advent: Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
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BAD END
Single-player alternative to Advent: Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.
It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.
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BURIED STARS
Single-player alternative to Advent: Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Advent: Dawn.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
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The VII Enigma
Single-player alternative to Advent: Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Advent: Dawn.
Fate, love, death... Can the enigma be solved? 『The VII Enigma』is a character-driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Set in a shadowy world of dystopian conspiracy, you must defy the fabric of reality, navigating the desperate path to the 'true end' against the tyranny of time itself.
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SYNESTHESIA
Single-player alternative to Advent: Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.
🌀 Is there an escape to the endless spiral?🌀 『SYNESTHESIA』 is an emotive, character driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Join a group of college students with strange cognitive powers, who soon discover something is amiss at the institute sworn to help them...