Single-player games like Dead Man Waiting
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Man Waiting, 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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Inner Rooms
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Dead Man Waiting.
Wander through vast, unsettling liminal spaces as a quiet presence grows alongside you. Inner Rooms is a psychological atmospheric exploration game set in a world that appears calm and peaceful, yet constantly radiates unease.
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The Museum of You
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Dead Man Waiting.
TMOY is a series of interactive art installations hidden inside a first person adventure game. Explore the “museum” and the surreal void space it resides in, make choices, discover new worlds, play (or suffer through) a variety of strange minigames - it’s up to you. It is your museum, after all.
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Year Unknown
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dead Man Waiting.
A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.
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DRINK HUMAN BEANS
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dead Man Waiting.
You will created to be tortured by a sentient job application. You will learn to live, laugh, love until the walls bleed. You will become a succulent beverage.
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[ABERRATION] Yes,Jerry!
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Dead Man Waiting.
Wake as Mike in a small apartment where Jerry, your impossibly helpful roommate, cooks, jokes, and guides every choice. A short first-person PC VR psychological horror game about comfort turning into control.
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PAGER
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Dead Man Waiting.
You are wetware, working a mysterious job.
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Death Club: Our Dead Pawns
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dead Man Waiting.
You have been hired as a Death Record Keeper and have become a partner in the game of Eternal Death. The only problems bothering you are just a few minor ones: Who are you? What do you want to do? Is today the first day or the last day?
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The Last Worker
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Dead Man Waiting.
The Last Worker is an immersive narrative adventure centered around a lone worker’s last stand in an increasingly automated world. Kurt works for the world’s largest retailer and is forced to choose between capitalism or activism.
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Die Young
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Dead Man Waiting.
Kidnapped for no clear reason to a dazzling yet mysterious island on the Mediterranean Sea, a young girl has to find a way to escape. Armed with only her wits, agility, and the will to stay alive, she must make her getaway or Die Young.
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Stayin' Alive
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Do your best to die or save your enemies from death in this frantic team multiplayer game about health issues. Death is in the air.
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Die Young: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dead Man Waiting.
Die Young: Prologue narrates events that occurred a few hours before the main story of Die Young. You play as Nehir, a field agent on a mission to kill Brother No.1. The mission failed and now you have only one desperate attempt to reach the extraction point.
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Vorax
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dead Man Waiting.
In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?
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SuperTotalCarnage!
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Slay never-ending legions of monsters while running in circles! SuperTotalCarnage! is a gory and dark horror casual game with rogue-lite elements. Choose from a variety of weapons and perks and make every playthrough a different experience. Unlock many characters each one with different abilities.