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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Liminophobia
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dead Man Waiting.
Walking and Swimming Simulator. No monsters. Explore liminal spaces where each level reflects different aspects of your mind. Savor the atmosphere and let your feelings guide you. Relax or feel anxious as you dive underwater. Overcome your fears in uncanny, unnerving, and eerie spaces.
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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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Prediction Error
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dead Man Waiting.
Prediction Error is a first-person psychological meta-game. Wander a void maze of geometry and synapses under a cynical narrator's gaze. Endure the dread of high free energy, break the fourth wall, and face cognitive choices. No dopamine rewards here—only an existential stress test.
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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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Anomaly Bus
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Dead Man Waiting.
The year is 1991. You board a rickety bus in a forgotten Soviet village, heading home after another bleak day. But something’s wrong. The same station keeps appearing—or does it? The signs are familiar, the streets look identical… yet something lurks behind the veil...
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Nihiland
Single-player alternative to Dead Man Waiting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Dead Man Waiting.
Have you ever felt the Nihility? A feeling that everything is meaningless and feeling down because of it... Come to Nihiland to relax and meditate and hopefully you will have all the answers.
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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.