Single-player games like Before Your Eyes
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Before Your Eyes, 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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Escape the Beach
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
A surreal first-person narrative experience. Walk along an endless tropical beach, encounter out-of-place artifacts and look for a way to escape while being guided by a soothing yet sarcastic voice who makes you ponder the meaning of your existence.
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
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MARK'S LIFE
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
This is the story of Mark's life...
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Sublustrum
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Enter a mysterious machine built to explore the human subconscious and complete your brother’s final experiment. Descend into a world where memories become places, solve sound-driven puzzles, and uncover a hidden truth in this first-person narrative adventure.
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The Last Night Train
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
A story-driven puzzle adventure about Ovid searching for Thera, his love who vanished aboard a train where the night never ends… but what if she was never the one he needed to find?
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Refrain: Verse of Fate
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
A garden caught in eternal recurrence. A god who forgets everything. A witness without rest. In this narrative-driven 2D exploration game, walk, listen, and read your way through four cycles to piece together a truth hidden beneath the surface.
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Searching Light
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Something is wrong with the world — or with the boy walking through it. A surreal pixel adventure across two parallel realities, about fear, memory, and a mind that sees everything differently.
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To the Moon
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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Night in the Woods
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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OMORI
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
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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OneShot
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.