Single-player games like Lifeline
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Lifeline, 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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말리온
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lifeline.
Play the game from the perspective of a traveler who comes to the dealer and is faced with numerous choices in a story prepared by the dealer. Experience a story that changes based on your choices and see the ending that changes based on your choices!
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The Reeve
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lifeline.
You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!
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Rocwood Academy
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lifeline.
Rocwood Academy is a text-base choice-matters adventure game set in the wizard world hidden inside US society early 1900s. In the role of a first-year student, player is going to make friends, study wizardry and uncover the mystery beneath the school-back garden.
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Saga · The Circle
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lifeline.
The Holy Sword has been drawn. Now gather the Knights of the Round Table to rebuild the kingdom. Explore and investigate war-torn Britain, and fight in tactical battles where stealing turns matters. In this Literary CRPG, every choice shapes your values, your allies, and the fate of Britain itself.
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Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeline.
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
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Fixer's Tale
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeline.
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
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Sarawak
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeline.
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lifeline.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lifeline.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.