Single-player games like DashBored
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to DashBored, 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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Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with DashBored.
One day, Jimmy looked inside.
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The Adventure of Magical Girl
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DashBored.
Magical Girl + JRPG! The mercenaries Kaim and Asal are unable to get used to the court life, so they give up their lordship and continue to wander around, living by eating grass as mercenaries. But their boring routine is broken again. They would meet the three students from the magic academy.
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Der einzig wahre Auserwählte
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DashBored.
If you hate standard fantasy storys then you might love this one for it makes fun of all established fantasy cliches. This is more than just another RPG Maker game – it is a well written story, full of black humor with lots of different puzzles and quests that you have never seen before!
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To the Moon
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DashBored.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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LISA: The Painful
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DashBored.
The miserable journey of a broken man...
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The Chronicles of Nyanya
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DashBored.
A sweet jRPG-style game about cats, brutal massacres, cuteness, racism and social issues, friendship, sinister thoughts, hilarity and Nazi furniture. It’s an epic attempt to blow your mind with adult themes hidden behind bright cartoon graphics.
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Treasure Hunter Claire
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DashBored.
Treasure Hunter Claire is the story of the titular protagonist, Claire, and her adventure through the fabled land of Alstroemeria. What treasures and riches await her as she navigates the world?
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Fallen ~Makina and the City of Ruins~
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DashBored.
Fallen takes you on an adventure with Makina into the Ruins of Gardona. What fate awaits Makina and her friends on their travels as they descend further into the ruins? Find out in this JRPG classic!
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DashBored.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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The Endless Empty
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DashBored.
A surreal post-life adventure
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DashBored.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Psychopomp GOLD
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DashBored.
Psychopomp is BACK. The catacombs stretch down farther than ever before. Your entire life has been a lie. Delve into the depths, and discover the horrors that lie below. More realms, more modes, more secrets. An ancient voice calls to you from the center of the earth. Will you answer it?
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MOTHER
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with DashBored.
MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!
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DREAMWILD
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DashBored.
DREAMWILD is a fast paced, Arcade-Styled FPS set in a multitude of unique and bizarre psychedelic worlds! Slice through the endless horde with your accursed sword, discover the secrets that the DreamWilds have to offer, and get to the bottom of the dark plague spreading through all Mindspace!
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NashBored
Single-player alternative to DashBored — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DashBored.
NashBored is a surreal RPG in a dark and unique world.Nash just wont wake up. The dream goes deeper and deeper.What lies beyond the veil of your conscious thought? Who are you, really? Discover the truth of your dream reality.