Single-player games like The Executioner
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Executioner, 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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PULSE//DEADLINE
Single-player alternative to The Executioner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Executioner.
A 30-minute narrative horror experience set in an abandoned carnival that slowly comes back to life around you. Survive your night shift as the grounds awaken, with optional heart-rate integration that reacts to your fear.
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Sin or Suffer
Single-player alternative to The Executioner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Executioner.
Sin or Suffer is a brutal mix of survival-horror and JRPG. Locked in a medieval prison, you awake amidst a cold silence. The guards are gone; inmates and madness own the place. Something terrible lurks underground. But the only way to the truth is down.
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Shattered Rites: 破狱
Single-player alternative to The Executioner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Executioner.
A ritual unearthed, tethered to a world in-between, plunging those around it into despair. With a jade mirror that reveals restless spirits, Professor Nathaniel Cheng travels through distorted reality and romanticized memory to save an innocent soul. What will you lose to save the ones you love?
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Vampyr
Single-player alternative to The Executioner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Executioner.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
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The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to The Executioner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Executioner.
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
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Giraffe Town
Single-player alternative to The Executioner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Executioner.
A giraffe born with slippery feet sets out to find love...
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Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Single-player alternative to The Executioner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Executioner.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
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Infliction
Single-player alternative to The Executioner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Executioner.
Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.
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We. The Revolution
Single-player alternative to The Executioner — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, preside over complicated cases of ordinary citizens, dangerous criminals, and enemies of the revolution in revolutionary Paris. Make judgments, plot political intrigue, and try to not lose your own head!