Single-player games like Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, 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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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
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.
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
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.
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Psycho-Sleuth
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
Psycho-Sleuth is a mystery game where cognitive disorders distort the rules of murder. 13 players, each with a strange condition — like “no lying,” “no left side,” or “no faces” — are trapped in a deadly game. These disorders are contagious, and the killer hides behind abnormal logic.
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
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The Shadow You
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
The Shadow You is a compelling horror adventure game set in two different realities. Solve puzzles, reveal secrets and let the chills go down your spine in this immersive story.
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
Become Phoenix Wright and experience the thrill of battle as you fight to save your innocent clients in a court of law. Play all 14 episodes, spanning the first three games, in one gorgeous collection.
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Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
Kill each other...for science! The class of '89 is trapped in an elite school killing game. Investigate, solve, and expose your classmates in Kumitantei™: Old-School Slaughter, an episodic murder-mystery ADV card-battler inspired by retro anime.
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AI: The Somnium Files
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.
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Yakuza 0
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
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Phantom Thief Sylphy 2 - The Collector
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
The titular busty bespectacled phantom thief finds herself trapped in the domain of a demon known as The Collector. Can she beat his challenge and escape, or will she succumb to the sweet torment he offers. You decide! A hardcore hentai game filled with delightful downfalls.
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Persona 4 Golden
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The fourth game in the METAL GEAR series: set over two incidents in 2007 and 2009, featuring Solid Snake and Raiden, introducing new stealth gameplay features.
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DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — 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!
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JUMP FORCE
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — 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.
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Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — 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.
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Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
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?
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Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Single-player alternative to Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
Nine participants awaken, trapped in an underground facility. To escape, they must play a game with deadly consequences. Who will live, and who will die? The choice is yours. Let the Decision Game begin…