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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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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Insomnia Club
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Insomnia Club is a dark, grounded emotional visual novel about early-adult confusion, social issues, intimacy, and self-identity. You play as a long-term insomniac employee whose life gradually slips out of control as reality tightens around you.
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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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Cherophobia
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
You find yourself stranded in a forest after your car breaks down. A short psychological horror game.
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Evil Inside
Single-player alternative to SELF — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover 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.
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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.