Single-player games like Survivor's Notes
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Survivor's Notes, 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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Day Zero
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Survivor's Notes.
Can you survive a zombie apocalypse? Day Zero is a text-based survival game where choices determine fate and ethical and moral decisions matter. Every choice shapes the story. Are you ready to test your limits in a zombie apocalypse?
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Shyondemic
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survivor's Notes.
You play as a Husky Girl, Survive the Pandemic, make a story path for her. Move fast or Die fast.
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Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survivor's Notes.
From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...
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Ark of Trisolar (三体方舟)
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survivor's Notes.
Steam's first AI robot driven Ark Colony simulation shooting game In the era of civilization collapse, the 'Three Body Ark' - the last fortress of hope for humanity, carries three interdependent ecological worlds towards deep space.
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Dead Hourz
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survivor's Notes.
"Dead Hourz" is a thrilling survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world. In a land ravaged by zombies, bandits, and scarcity, you must protect your family by gathering resources and making tough choices.
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FALL
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survivor's Notes.
In the past, the world was almost invaded by zombies.You will play the commander of the remaining survivor camp, searching for hope for the last surviving companions, forming and assigning your special police squad to explore this post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies!
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Quarantineer
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survivor's Notes.
For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.
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Nether: Resurrected
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survivor's Notes.
Nether is a unique, first-person, multiplayer urban survival experience. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Nether forces players to make life-saving decisions in a fast-paced struggle against players and the environment. Join tribes, hold territory, scavenge, craft, trade and loot your way to stay alive.
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女神的贴身男仆
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survivor's Notes.
"Service of Five Graces" is a romance FMV. You play as Lin Ye. One day, you wake up to find you've become the personal butler to the five ladies!? To repay your father's debts, you have no choice but to step into this mansion, beginning a strange life of being "ordered around" by five young women.
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天平游戏1:抉择
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survivor's Notes.
《Inner Scales 1:Choice》is a first-person FMV. Set in a sealed cage. It pushes survival, humanity, emotion and moral dilemmas to the extreme. You will face surveillance, cages, and the fates of eight trapped women—every choice you make decides life and death for others and yourself.
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Back
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survivor's Notes.
《Back》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy !!!! The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
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Pact Between Us
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survivor's Notes.
"Pact between us" is a FMV. After the loss parents, you and your younger sister become siblings who only have each other. You must tenderly care for her daily life.What kind of woman will your sister grow into? Every arrangement you implement during her upbringing carries profound weight.
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TryAndLove
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survivor's Notes.
A man's life is a life of pursuing love. The childish love of childhood sweethearts? White Moonlight's pure love? Ignorant of the astringent love of forbidden fruit? Blind love like a moth flying into a flame? True love that transcends the world? Act Ren Xing and make a willful choice.
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Back:Fade
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survivor's Notes.
《Back:Fade》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy !!!! The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
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Lord Return
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survivor's Notes.
《Lord Return》is an interactive fiction game about rebirth and revenge. Play as a twice‑betrayed Demon Lord’s soul bound to the Beauty Destiny System. Unmask impostors, stop world‑ending schemes, battle at Fallen Demon Cliff, protect your loved ones, and face the ultimate high‑dimensional trial.
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Force Purge
Single-player alternative to Survivor's Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survivor's Notes.
《Force Purge》is a visual novel investigation, and branching storytelling. Play as Wang Taqing, team up with psychic cop Lin Mengzhu. Investigate haunted cases, uncover the Sword Lenders’ conspiracy to open the ghost gate and fight the underworld invasion to decide the fate of the mortal world.