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Single-player games like Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics

Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics, 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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    One Way Heroics — Steam game cover

    One Way Heroics

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics.

    Across all dimensions, the only constant is Darkness! A procedurally generated RPG-roguelike journey across the multiverse! In One Way Heroics, you take on the role of an intrepid adventurer who must travel across the land and face the Demon Lord before a mysterious darkness engulfs everything.

    2014IndieRPG3.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate — Steam game cover

    Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics.

    The Classic Roguelike Wanders Onto Steam! Adventure with Shiren the Wanderer and his sidekick Koppa, the talking ferret, through a world filled with cunning monsters, deadly traps and countless treasure.

    2020RPG3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Echoes — Steam game cover

    Echoes

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics.

    サクッと遊べるダンジョン探索型2Dドット絵ローグライクゲーム

    2023RPG3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wave Dungeon — Steam game cover

    Wave Dungeon

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics.

    Wave Danjon is a roguelike RPG in which the player is forced to navigate a map that switches at regular intervals. Conquer dungeons that become more powerful and evil with each wave!

    2024IndieRPG2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Valkyrie Nemesis — Steam game cover

    Valkyrie Nemesis

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics.

    A dungeon crawling RPG game that revolves around Norse mythology. Discovering strange events. Fighting demons, gods. Looting treasures. Customizing characters, fighting style.

    2022IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shattered Pixel Dungeon — Steam game cover

    Shattered Pixel Dungeon

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics.

    Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike dungeon crawler that's simple to start but hard to master! Every game is a unique challenge, with six different heroes, randomized levels and enemies, and hundreds of items to collect and use.

    2022IndieAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tangledeep — Steam game cover

    Tangledeep

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics.

    Enter the magical world of Tangledeep, a beautifully polished dungeon crawler inspired by classic 16-bit RPGs! Colorful characters, a unique job system, tons of skills, items, and diverse environments with deep, turn-based roguelike gameplay. A different adventure every time you play!

    2018IndieRPG9.74 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    [English] AbsentedAge 2: Ghostbound — Steam game cover

    [English] AbsentedAge 2: Ghostbound

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics.

    Absented Age is a fresh mix of genres: an action RPG outside of combat that becomes a roguelike-style strategy RPG during combat.

    2025ActionRPG15.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dragon's Dogma 2 — Steam game cover

    Dragon's Dogma 2

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics.

    Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.

    2024ActionRPG69.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island — Steam game cover

    Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics.

    A new adventure for Shiren and Koppa begins!

    2024RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO — Steam game cover

    DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — 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!

    2024Action69.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc — Steam game cover

    Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    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.

    2016Adventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — Steam game cover

    Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    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.

    2016Adventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony — Steam game cover

    Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    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.

    2017Adventure11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    JUMP FORCE — Steam game cover

    JUMP FORCE

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — 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.

    2019ActionSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AI: The Somnium Files — Steam game cover

    AI: The Somnium Files

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.

    2019Adventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls — Steam game cover

    Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — 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.

    2017Action5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Zero Escape: The Nonary Games — Steam game cover

    Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

    Single-player alternative to Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    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?

    2017Adventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →