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Single-player games like Diabolical

Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Diabolical, 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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    Grand Academy for Future Villains — Steam game cover

    Grand Academy for Future Villains

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Congratulations! We are delighted to welcome you to the Grand Academy for Future Villains, the world's finest evil preparatory school, where unimaginable power begins with a world-class education!

    2017IndieAdventureRPG5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fallen Hero: Rebirth — Steam game cover

    Fallen Hero: Rebirth

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!

    2018IndieAdventureRPG6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fallen Hero: Retribution — Steam game cover

    Fallen Hero: Retribution

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    So you're a villain now? Let's see if you survive the experience.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery — Steam game cover

    Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Diabolical.

    A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!

    2023AdventureSimulationRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Steam game cover

    The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Diabolical.

    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!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Roadwarden — Steam game cover

    Roadwarden

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

    2022IndieAdventureRPG10.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stronghold: A Hero's Fate — Steam game cover

    Stronghold: A Hero's Fate

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Defend your stronghold from invading monsters and lead your people to glory! Rule your territory, punish your enemies, and build a legacy.

    2018IndieAdventureRPG6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Signs of the Sojourner — Steam game cover

    Signs of the Sojourner

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?

    2020IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Monster Loves You! — Steam game cover

    Monster Loves You!

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!

    2013IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Long Live The Queen — Steam game cover

    Long Live The Queen

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Choice of Robots — Steam game cover

    Choice of Robots

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.

    2014IndieRPG6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tin Star — Steam game cover

    Tin Star

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.

    2015IndieRPG11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Zombie Exodus — Steam game cover

    Zombie Exodus

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    It starts with a daring escape from a zombie-infested city; it ends at Zombie Exodus, when a horde of zombies swarms outlying settlements like locusts.

    2015IndieRPG19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Zombie — Steam game cover

    Zombie

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Diabolical.

    You are surrounded by zombies. Unlike the zombies that are out to eat your brains. You can't stay awake forever.

    2018ActionIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heroes Project — Steam game cover

    Heroes Project

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Turn based strategy, tough choices, short and long term consequences.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road — Steam game cover

    Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?

    2020IndieAdventureRPG11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heroes Rise: The Prodigy — Steam game cover

    Heroes Rise: The Prodigy

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero? "Heroes Rise" is an epic interactive novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. How high will you rise?

    2014IndieRPG4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Choice of the Deathless — Steam game cover

    Choice of the Deathless

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.

    2014IndieRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives — Steam game cover

    Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Dominate undead politics through cunning and violence! Will a missing Prince give you the opening to betray your sire and seize power?

    2021IndieAdventureRPG11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names — Steam game cover

    Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Save the living earth with Rage and spirit! Can your shattered werewolf pack defeat a Wyrm Spirit that manifests as a lie that you want to believe?

    2024IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vampire: The Masquerade — Out for Blood — Steam game cover

    Vampire: The Masquerade — Out for Blood

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    Gather your allies to hunt the vampires that terrorize your town! Study their ways and exploit their rivalries, or you'll become a vampire yourself.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heroes Rise: The Hero Project — Steam game cover

    Heroes Rise: The Hero Project

    Single-player alternative to Diabolical — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Diabolical.

    The sequel to "Heroes Rise: The Prodigy." It's America's #1 reality show for heroes! As a contestant on "The Hero Project," you'll battle villains and heroes alike with your newly discovered "Infini" powers.

    2014IndieRPG5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →