Single-player games like Eternal Threads
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Eternal Threads, 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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The Forgotten City
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
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Twelve Minutes
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
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The Signifier Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.
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The Sexy Brutale
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
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Heavy Rain
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Eternal Threads.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
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The Operator
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
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Elsinore
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover.
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The Gardens Between
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
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Telling Lies
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
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The Invisible Hours
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Eternal Threads.
The Invisible Hours is a complex murder mystery in VR, in which players freely explore an intricate web of interwoven stories within a sprawling mansion. This is not a game. This is not a movie. This is a piece of immersive theatre with many tangled threads.
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Quantum Break
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Eternal Threads.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
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Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.