Single-player games like Dead Ringer
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Ringer, 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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Space Detective 14
Single-player alternative to Dead Ringer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dead Ringer.
Space Detective 14 is a visual novel set in the Space Station 14 universe. Giovanni Mariotti is a hardboiled detective investigating on a serial-killer. Popular Space Station 14’s player characters make an appearance as either friend or foe of the protagonist: Nilk the Narf, Sister Niima, Smudge.
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Antioch: Scarlet Bay
Single-player alternative to Dead Ringer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Ringer.
Antioch: Scarlet Bay is an online cooperative narrative adventure. Play as two detectives working together to solve a murder in the shadowy city of Antioch. Wander in a city filled with characters with their own agendas and attitudes, all your decisions change the story and lead to multi endings.
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Overboard!
Single-player alternative to Dead Ringer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Ringer.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
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7Days Origins
Single-player alternative to Dead Ringer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Ringer.
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
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Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!
Single-player alternative to Dead Ringer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Ringer.
Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.
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The Ravendree Oracle
Single-player alternative to Dead Ringer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Ringer.
Meet devils, diviners, bootleggers, and showstoppers in this 1920s whodunit adventure. Grim and macabre, yet darkly humorous. The Ravendree Oracle mixes 1920’s toon style art with a morbid murder mystery, all while exploring the eccentric characters that inhabit a supernatural speakeasy.
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ANOMALY CATALOG 1: SCHOOL
Single-player alternative to Dead Ringer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Ringer.
Something is wrong at this school. Strange incidents are spreading, students are hiding secrets, and creatures that should not exist are beginning to appear. Follow the clues, survive the horrors, and discover what is really happening before it is too late.
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童谣无忌
Single-player alternative to Dead Ringer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dead Ringer.
In 1998, journalist Gu Yao comes to the mountain village of Hongluo after an anonymous letter. A nursery rhyme points to a chain of old murders. Slowly reveal the truth of the case from back then.