Single-player games like SELF
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to SELF, 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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Esc_
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
A 2D pixel art Escape Room game where the danger goes beyond the screen. The anonymous protagonist is kidnapped and wakes up in an abandoned house, where he needs to solve puzzles, look for items and face "The Antagonist", who manipulates the game — and his own computer. Can you escape?
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EPONYMOUS
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
EPONYMOUS: In Which a Work Is Known by Its Reading is a short-form narrative about unreliable infrastructures.
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Better World
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Seven evenings in one house. A tired father, five kids, a wife who counts his pills. Take one every evening and everything is lovely — until the walls start writing back. A short PS1-style psychological horror story. Two endings. What did you do, Arthur?
- 4
Insomnia Club
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
A dark visual novel. By day, you monetize insomniacs’ pain and privacy. By night, you seek help in a real insomnia club, only to find those you treated as collateral sitting beside you. The closer you get, the harder it is to tell whether you’re protecting them—or turning them into better products.
- 5
Where Birds Sleep
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Join the ultimate expedition and enter Cormo's mind as he embarks on a gruelling mission to chart a mysterious island shrouded in mind-bending fog. Put your persuasion skills to the test and direct his fate with every word, but be prepared for unexpected consequences...
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Remembering/Not remembering Sin
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Shunichi Sasaki, a young man who lost his past memories due to higher brain dysfunction, was criticized as a "murderer". Who was he really? Use memory notes to supplement his memories and explore his past.
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放學後(After school)
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
After School is a short visual novel about an elementary school student who encounters an injured old woman on her way home from school, and is begged to help her walk home, but is forced to embark on a thrilling journey...
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Echoes of Sin: Confusion
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Echoes of Sin: Confusion is a psychological horror where every loop changes reality. Spot anomalies, survive the loop - or die and uncover the truth.
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Undertale
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with SELF.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
- 10
STAY
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
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Hymer 2000
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Hymer 2000 is an interactive text puzzle game, where players freely converse with the "Hymer" and use an open "Search" function to retrieve past conversations. By discovering keywords, gathering clues, and collecting "Faces", players uncover Hymer's secrets and ultimately shut it down.