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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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 Unclosed Case
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
A psychological detective thriller. Everyone has already decided who did it. You don't have to. Investigate a double death, question everyone who loved them, and discover how much you can trust your own mind.
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Condition Unknown
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
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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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On Tape << Rewind
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
On Tape << Rewind is a psychological horror story told through cassette tapes. Play recordings, search for clues, discover hidden cassettes, and manipulate audio. Unravel the mystery of a scientist’s disappearance and the obsession that consumed him — tape by tape.
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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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They’ll Hang You for That Face
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
Tomorrow, you burn at the stake as a "Werewolf". To save your family, you gladly accept a false execution. But after death, you witness them being ravaged in a living hell. Through a time loop triggered by your absolute despair, you must weave the world's kindest lie.
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Homebody
Single-player alternative to Eternal Threads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eternal Threads.
An interactive thriller about a group of friends haunted by the memories of their past while being hunted by a relentless killer. From The Game Grumps (Dream Daddy)
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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.