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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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeline.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Dead in Antares
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lifeline.
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
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Whispers from the Star
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lifeline.
Save a stranded astronaut on a mysterious alien planet through real-time AI conversations, where your words are her only lifeline. Guide her through Gaia's dangers and forge an enduring bond in this interactive story with voice-controlled, open-ended dialogue.
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Quarantine Circular
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeline.
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeline.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
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Crown Gambit
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lifeline.
Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil. Pick a side amongst noble families to choose the future monarch and crush those who stand in your way through board-shattering tactical card combat!
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TR-49
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lifeline.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Lifeline — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeline.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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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.