Single-player games like Deadline
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Deadline, 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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2Person
Single-player alternative to Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline.
Dive with your friends into this weird 3D platformer where you see through each other's eyes. In this game you will be able to have a second person's perspective where you'll need communication, coordination and skill to relearn how to control your character and pass the challenges that await you.
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Crystal Ball Critters
Single-player alternative to Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline.
Crystal Ball Critters is a multiplayer ball-racing game, in which you race your friends through our evil mastermind's carefully thought out multiverse of adventures! Play by yourself or against up to 4 of your friends to find out who can beat each stage first.
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Super One More Jump
Single-player alternative to Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline.
Super One More Jump is an intense arcade platformer with simple to learn mechanics and hard to master levels. Test your muscle memory, concentration and sanity as you progress though ever-changing levels and gravity! Packed with content throughout various single player and multiplayer modes.
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SIFT
Single-player alternative to Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline.
SIFT is a fast 2D action platformer about momentum. Fire your hook, push off thin air to dash and reset your jump, grab the key, hit the door — then do it again, faster. 85 handcrafted levels. Race the clock, your friends, or everyone at once.
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Watermelon Challenge
Single-player alternative to Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadline.
Face off in 'Watermelon Challenge,' the engaging puzzle game where players merge fruits to the rhythm of victory. Duel head-to-head, ascend the leaderboards, navigate a world filled with vibrant strategy, all while your dependable duck ally cheers you on to a peppy soundtrack!
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SquareMan-Boy
Single-player alternative to Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline.
Bounce, dash, and warp through neon-lit puzzle levels in this fast-paced 2D platformer. Master world rotators, dodge deadly lasers, and race against the clock in a high-speed test of precision and timing.
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Wings of Vi 2: Guardian's Heart
Single-player alternative to Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline.
Myougi survived. She shattered the sin statues. Now the Seven Deadly Sins walk the shattered realms, and Vi returns, wings reforged, to hunt them down. The vision is a mix of what I've learned: a precision platformer with fast, fluid combat and more player agency.
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Stewart The Fox: Swing it!
Single-player alternative to Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline.
A fast-paced speedrun platformer where you play as Stewart The Fox, improve your runs, and compete on worldwide leaderboards. Master the movement across 15+ maps, race against your ghost, and beat your personal best. Can you become a World Record Holder?
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"Did You Submit a Ticket?" Simulator
Single-player alternative to Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Welcome to your new job. HelpDesk OS is a corporate IT support simulator where you battle frustrated coworkers using logic, dialogue, and weaponized company policy. Drain their willpower, manage their rage, and survive your 9-to-5 shift without HR firing you. Have you tried turning it off and on?
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Doomed Inheritance
Single-player alternative to Deadline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Deadline.
Doomed Inheritance is a first-person psychological horror puzzle game set in a decaying Gothic manor where a brain-shaped sanity meter steadily drains. Explore eerie rooms, solve immersive environmental, light-and-shadow, and pattern puzzles, and collect vials to stave off creeping control drift.