Single-player games like DEATH PENALTY
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to DEATH PENALTY, 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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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to DEATH PENALTY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with DEATH PENALTY.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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Silver Pines
Single-player alternative to DEATH PENALTY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DEATH PENALTY.
Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.
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BLACK SOULS
Single-player alternative to DEATH PENALTY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DEATH PENALTY.
Long, long ago, there existed a kingdom shrouded in dense mist: the Lost Empire. This mist twisted humans into terrifying beasts, plunging the world into despair. War raged endlessly. Heroes rose, seeking fame and glory. It is in this place you awaken—a nameless undead.
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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Single-player alternative to DEATH PENALTY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DEATH PENALTY.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
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OFF
Single-player alternative to DEATH PENALTY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with DEATH PENALTY.
“I’m the Batter. I’ve been entrusted with a sacred mission.” -- One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years is finally coming to Steam. Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.
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WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
Single-player alternative to DEATH PENALTY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with DEATH PENALTY.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
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Die For The Lich
Single-player alternative to DEATH PENALTY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with DEATH PENALTY.
Gather magical dice, adapt your gear and venture through a land haunted by folklore creatures.
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Trench Face
Single-player alternative to DEATH PENALTY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DEATH PENALTY.
Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner. Every enemy varying in strengths and weaknesses. Escape the trench with your life.