Single-player games like One Way To Die
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to One Way To Die, 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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Overboard!
Single-player alternative to One Way To Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with One Way To Die.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
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Lucid9: Inciting Incident
Single-player alternative to One Way To Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Free To Play with One Way To Die.
Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.
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The Innsmouth Case
Single-player alternative to One Way To Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with One Way To Die.
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.
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Dark Scavenger
Single-player alternative to One Way To Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with One Way To Die.
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?
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Homicipher
Single-player alternative to One Way To Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with One Way To Die.
Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Single-player alternative to One Way To Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with One Way To Die.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Tomb of the Bloodletter
Single-player alternative to One Way To Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Tomb of the Bloodletter is a strategic word roguelike where your keyboard becomes your arsenal. Use your wit to unleash deadly words through tactical combinations of your letters to defeat the denizens of this dingy tomb and claim the Bloodletter for yourself...
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Suicide Countdown: 7 Days
Single-player alternative to One Way To Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with One Way To Die.
Only 7 days remain until death embraces you -- the everyday life of a young boy begins to distort little by little, unfolding into a bizarre and ghastly series of events... When fate comes knocking, will you have the courage to make a choice?
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The Dope Game
Single-player alternative to One Way To Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with One Way To Die.
To escape the city of Starkham and start your new life, your friend Preston sets up a meeting with the local loanshark, Sweaty Mike. After foolishly borrowing $2,000, you embark on a timed mission to sell as many illicit substances as possible. Based on John E. Dell's 1984 classic game Drugwars.
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Raise Your Own Clone
Single-player alternative to One Way To Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with One Way To Die.
You are about to uncover four twisted tales of misadventure surrounding people connected, in some way, by the late Dr. Cyrus Stansfield's cloning machine. Within these stories you must face the ethical dilemmas and possible fortune while guiding each character to their own end.
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Into Oblivion
Single-player alternative to One Way To Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Into Oblivion is a drinking contest of ridiculous proportion. Mix, swap, and serve drinks against a variety of bots, or friends and strangers, in three different modes. Chip away at your opponents' precious health, liver, and drunkenness to win.